Wolffish's Secret

31st October 1920

  I wake up this morning with no memory of the last night. One thing that I know is that I'm still alive and no terrifying creature disturbed my heavy sleep.
  When I arrive at the village, I feel like an unexplainable tension. The market place is devastated, stalls are covered with fish blood and carcasses lie on the floor. The white limestone pavement is stained of red. Those stains are attracting my eyes: they're shaped like paws. Gigantic paws. A crowd of villagers slowly fill the market place and then an old man that saw me arriving from the ruins points at me and screams with an old, weak and afraid voice :
  - The stranger ! Fiend ! Wizard, demon !
  All villagers are staring at me, fathers catches the arms of their children. I rise up my arms to the grey sky in sign of innocence. I perceive Rufina, hiding in the crowd. Her golden eyes look sad, and she left to join the Crêperie. I don't understand and look at my feet. When I look back up along the path I just followed, I discover footsteps shaped like animal paws that slowly change to human feet shapes. I'm horrified and I start to shake.
  I'm afraid. Scared of myself.
  Lately in the day, I decide to go back to Rufina's Crêperie. The moon starts to glow behind the thick fog that covers the landscapes. Seagulls doesn't sing anymore, I just ear the noise of the raging waves on the cliffs. I keep a small bunch of greyish daisies in my icy hands. Once arrived in front of the snack's door, I knock at the rhythm of my heart exhausting in my chest. But Rufina refuses to open. I ear her sobs behind the rifted wood, and I scream, I hoarse by imploring her to open the door. After a few minutes, the heavy door starts to slowly open, still maintained by a chain. I perceive one of the glittered eye of Rufina and a part of her brown hair. Then I implore her :
  - Please, I won't hurt you. Help me. You'll bring me to the castle tonight and you'll chain me to a pillar. If I transform, then you'll take the gun I have in my bag. You'll only have one thing to do...
  After a long silence, Rufina accepts and brings me to the ruins where she finds a rock high enough to chain me. I chose iron chains she passes me around the waist and wrists. The icy iron is burning my skin. We both wait for the night, without a word. A simple candle gives us light. I try to convince myself that it will be alright, that I'm just paranoid. I suddenly feel strange, and take a look at my watch.
  It indicates 11:59 pm. My heart full of blood misses a beat, relief takes me and I look up to my friend.
  The big smile on my face disappears slowly. In place of Rufina, a gigantic wolf is standing in front of me, surrounded by clothes of who was, a few seconds ago, a young woman.
  I found the werewolf. She is. And I'm chained.