“What do you mean you do not know how to connect to nature? You are a wolf, born of nature, raised in nature. Our very fiber is nature. You just have to open yourself up to your animal to see that.”
“I am open with my animal.”
“Obviously not, if you can’t feel nature. Nature would have come easily to you if you were.”
***
I waited until my father left me alone in the clearing before I dropped to the grass and closed my eyes. I reached deep inside myself and did the only thing I could think of. “Grandmother, I need your help.” I waited in the silence of the clearing until I felt a chill run down my neck. I opened my eyes to see her sinking down in front of me.
Her silver and black hair hung in a braid over her shoulder, swinging in my face, and she lowered herself and I couldn’t stop m
