The Avestan Viewer -- A Wolf Love Story

Chapter 39 -- Stepping Up

**This is the last chapter!

I had hoped to get some answers from the other 'flame masters', but it turned out they knew even less than I did. But just like me, they discovered their abilities by accident. And since I was older I became the teacher of our little group. I made sure to include Gavon and Mave, and anyone else that was interested. Much to my surprise Elise decided to join us most days, she explained that she needed to teach her own pups about their abilities if he or she had any.

And after a few weeks our group continued to grow and became a sort of 'Philosophy' gathering, centered around the teachings of the Goddess. Most of her nature stories had become bedtime stories, but there was a new resurgence for our people to discover a new meaning in life.

I was always reminded of what they saw. Every wolf saw the Goddess, they all had memories of how she cared about and saved the world. The Goddess was no longer a bed-time story, but an actual force beyond our normal existence.

Most wolves understood about many of the other philosophies in the world, and ours became just as important and just as relevant than any others. The 'Goddess' revival was in every pack in every part of the world, and many packs took my speech to heart and started to form more comprehensive social 'safety-nets' for the young, old, weak, and even for rogues. Many rogues who weren't enveloped in the bloodlust affliction were able to be rehabilitated, and many packs started posting therapies that worked.

This grew into a type of mental health system that hadn't existed before, with web postings and doctors and healers traveling between packs. And all of them traveled to our pack at some point, but always checked with Stephen or his Betas first. These 'healers' usually joined our morning discussions, then I spent time with them discussing my experience in person. Even though they all felt and experienced what I did, they needed to talk about it and I sighed and helped them understand to the best of my abilities.

And Stephen kept these visits to only two a week so I didn't get too burnt out.

Another wonderful thing that happened is that Matt always accompanied me in the mornings and we became very close. He was so little and loved to crawl and then walk everywhere, playing and I always kept an eye on him along with my Guard. He was well loved and well protected like every child should be.

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A few years later I was in a meadow on a wonderful Summer morning, and Matt was playing with his younger brother and sister. He would only play with them for a short while before becoming bored, but his siblings adored him and always followed his lead. He was a natural leader and was just as bossy as Stephen, and I smiled when he got his younger siblings to do his chores for him, but always gave him a lecture and made sure he did his fair share of chores.

A visiting Alpha and pack Healer were sitting with us discussing philosophy in a meadow when Matt ran over to me and gave me a huge hug. I grinned at my energetic 'interruption'.

"Mama?" Matt asked, his little five-year old voice made me smile some more.

"Yes love?" I asked him back.

"Will you fight the Demon again?" he asked me with a little fear in his voice and eyes.

I stopped to look at him and tilted my head slightly and had a terrible thought. "Matt, do you remember that at all?" I didn't think it was possible since he was just an infant but needed to ask.

"I have nightmares, mama, I sometimes see that man trying to kill you!" he shouted at me as tears started to run down his face.

I held him close and comforted him, rocking him back and forth in my lap. The other adults just sat and watched, they had felt this way at the time also. I felt with each visit I was healing the travelers also.