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Wolfwind

- "The wolfpack ran...and with them ran something that was not a wolf. Not quite."

"The power flowed like silver fire through her veins, fuelled by years of anger and loss. The night tugged at her, singing to her, 'let go, shadow-dancer, shape-shifter...let go...' as the moonsong danced in her blood and her senses whirled like drunkenness. She was growling deep in the back of her throat and the wild magic beat and stormed within her. She threw back her head as a crisis-point was reached within her, reached and passed, and the night was lit with an incandescent flame of beauty, terror and madness.

"Oh!" She cried out once, quietly, unbelieving. And she changed."

This is an illustration to a short story of the same name. The story is from a suite of four stories, all set in different parts of the same fictional continent - Shymeria - and representing each of the four seasons. Wolfwind is the winter story, about a young female wolfen. It is a tale of redemption after loneliness and long estrangement.

If you would like to see this picture in more detail, this image links to a larger version. The larger version is 140 k in size.

Digitally painted in Photoshop.

This picture was an Editor's Pick at Epilogue in June 2005

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