Crissa's life changed both dramatically in the short term, as well as pervasively over the next several years. Immediately, after seeing Julie off to Germany and willfully committing to David in the most intimate way, the winter passed with the loving couple making the much-needed adjustments to their lives. Once Crissa could sense the subtle changes in her own physicality, with the onset of that first full moon, the two made their way to the cabin in time for the transformation to occur in both of them.
The experience was phenomenal, and a peak moment in Crissa's life, as she had nervously but whole-heartedly accepted the conversion which she had hoped would occur. Fortunately, as a newcomer to the rapid-genetic process, she was accompanied by her loving male counterpart in the wilds who added to her protection and shared with her unexpected affection—characteristics of wolves little understood or witnessed by humans.
Running and hunting with her mate, communing in the cold air with no discomfort, frolicking in the shadows and sunlight, grooming each other as lovers for life do, Crissa's first experiences as a wolf were memorable and something eventually not to fear as the many months began to roll by. But the new life was not without other major changes—measures she had never dreamed to be so necessary for the whole process to function well for her and David. These were things large and small the two had to accept as they totally morphed into an extraordinary duel life. After only her second month of transitioning under the bright moon, Crissa had decided to bring her parents into the secret of her existence, as a mere matter of better facility and survival. And as any parents would do, confronted with a new and dire reality for their child, and helplessly with no present options, they lent their love and energies to comfort and accommodate both Crissa and David as best they could.
This involved first allowing them the freedom they needed to spend those critical full moon days and nights away, in the cabin and forest each month. It also involved them accepting David as the young man Crissa had committed to as her life's mate. For it would then become a matter of routine for her parents to drive them to the cabin each lunar cycle, leaving them with the necessities they needed for their shadowed and brief monthly life as wolves. Her father had even become an avid advocate for wolf-protection campaigns. He worked to temper the hunting culture in the region—unbeknownst to the Vancouver public that his daughter was a wolf varietal species herself, existing with the regularity of the heavens.
As the months rolled into years, Crissa's life and career evolved to what can only be called a success—personally, professionally and romantically. Her love for David and his devotion to her, never waned, as the moon was accepted to do each month. And this included both of their lives and chosen occupations. Crissa finished both her university degrees, choosing instead of medicine, to go into genetic research. Her work was involved with ground-breaking descoveries into the biological trans-mutation of humans and the canis lupis species--once thought only to exist in myth and folklore. It was a body of work becoming seriously recognized internationally for its certain undisputed data and proof.
David, on the other hand, demonstrated early on to be financially valuable to the fishing fleet for which he first worked, moored in Vancouver harbor. His expertise on the ocean in the north Pacific resulted in his promotion to captain of a new state-of-the-art fishing vessel, recently added to the already lucrative firm.
As all stories in life, however, Crissa's was not without serious tragedy. For several years into her ground-breaking research, an accident involving her parents shook her life and temporarily detoured her progress and stability. Returning one winter from a car-trip across the interior of Canada, which her mother and father had annually continued to do, her parents' 4-wheel drive vehicle slid off an ice-covered highway, resulting in both of their untimely deaths. This unexpected event took a full year for Crissa to recover from. As always, David was at her side during his period of stress mourning, and for the necessary measures taken involving Crissa's parents' property.
In the end, Crissa being the only child, the present age of an adult, and of a sound mind—her parents' official Last Will and Testament was honored and undisputed. This left the young Canadian at the age of twenty-six, the Vancouver house, the vacation cabin, the second car, and certain stocks and bonds her father had invested in over the years to cover her education and beyond. The two dwellings eventually made David's and Crissa's transition time during the months easier to facilitate, themselves. And it further allowed the secret of their miraculous life to remain unknown. Only friends, Brad, Mary and Josh, whom they had remained in touch with over the years, were knowledgeable of the couple's rare condition.
After the impact of loosing her parents had subsided enough for Crissa to continue her work and get back to an incomparable life in both worlds, the couple resumed their careers and satisfying existence--remaining joyous and ever-supportive in literally two realms.
It was not long before the wolf conservation groups of Vancouver would observe, during that certain time of the moonlit month, a pair of differently-marked species, trotting along, side by side in the tall summer grass. And behind the male and female was now seen and recorded a pair of wolf-cubs, again somewhat different than the local clan, yet wolf-enough to begin a new strain of the unique species on the North American continent.
A new age for an old, exotic folklore, had now begun.
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