Chapter 6: Revealing

When One Tooth came back, the rest of the pack followed him. One Tooth came in his half-form, and he was carrying the uncooked deer. "We don't like cooked meet, but I think you might find some pieces you can cook on it. I don't like it, but I heard deer should be good meat to make steaks from," One Tooth said. "Just put it on the floor there," NeeNee said, pointing at the floor near to the fireplace, with a fire, that Mongswai had made, when One Tooth were fetching the deer. One Tooth put it where NeeNee had said. As the wolves gathered up around her in a circle with a radius Mongswai would find alarming, NeeNee started to cut the animal into smaller pieces, handing the to the wolves in order of rank. "I see," One Tooth said. "You have learned the rankings of my pack-mates. Oh, Please, take the back leg for yourself. It's the best part." She made thanks to him, and when she was finished, she put the meat in a think covering of leaves, that she had been collecting, and put it into the fire. "Now, it just need an hour or so in the fire, and it will be done," NeeNee said.

They all gathered up around the fireplace: NeeNee, One Tooth and Mongswai. The wolves had laid down outside the cabin and took a little nap. They had eaten well that night. They were small talking and suddenly One Tooth came with the fatal question: "Well then, Mongswai. Where do you actually come from?" Silence fell over the cabin, and only the cracks from the fire were heard. "Ehr, what's the matter? Did I say something wrong?" One Tooth asked, looking from NeeNee to Mongswai and back while they looked at each other. Mongswai turned towards One Tooth and said "No, it's all right," and turned back to NeeNee and asked her, if he was to be trusted. "My beloved one," she said. "If you can trust anyone, it is him. I have never met anyone more trustworthy that he is. If you say it, he will not even tell his packmates!" Mongswai turned again to face One Tooth. "I guess, I can just as well tell you, but you will probably not believe what I tell you." Then Mongswai told him his story as it was to that day. To his surprise, One Tooth was not a bit surprised. "Oh, so you are that man from another world, that NeeNee's prophecy was about? Well, well, what do you know? I find it quite interesting. I have always been thinking about other worlds and how they might look." His eyes suddenly got a distant gazing look as he continued "I think of it as a world with machines that can pull themselves and machines that you push some places and a board emitting light and colours will write letters in return. The world would be much more easy and much less stressful." At this point, Mongswai's very serious look changed into an expression of a laugh that is withhold. "I can tell you that the world will not be as simple as you put it, but I shall not be the one to take away your dreams." Then he felt NeeNee's eyes upon him. He turned his head to face her. She was smiling in that very special way that only she could. "All this talking of visions of the future and other world make me dizzy." One Tooth looked at them and smiled. Then he changed form and slipped out into the night and walked towards his pack to sleep. NeeNee and Mongswai was still looking at each other and Mongswai felt a thought in his mind that was much clearer than thoughts normally are. "What would you say about hitting the furs, sweetheart?" Mongswai did not think about how this thought appeared, he just got up and walked with her to the place where they had put their things. The things they had been carrying was wrapped in thick furs, and these furs were actually their beds. They undressed and laid down. They did not sleep much that night.