Your words I will remember...

[nadine]

Nadine frowned sadly at Mingan, seeing how disapointed he look for not returning to the human world anymore. Then she quietly got up and went over to Mingan. "Don't worry Mingan, I know how you feel. I guess its only the three of us now." She said, gently patting Mingan on the shoulder with her bear paw.

[lil_nadi9]

Off in the corner, removed from this conversation, Nadi stirred, but only to streatch a bit in still half sleep before turning around to her other side and drifting back to sleep.

[Mingan]

"I guess so," Mingan sighs, tilting his head to look up at Nadine, "Do you...? Well...how do I say this? Uh...do you have a human family somewhere? I'm just curious. Or have you been accepted among the other bears around here?"

[nadine]

"Well I have met a few other bears before. But I did once had a human family, but now there's no longer with me." Nadine said sadly, hanging her head down.

[Mingan]

"What happened to them?" Mingan asks cautiously, "Uh...you don't have to say if you don't want to--if it's too painful. I'm just wondering, that's all."

[nadine]

Nadine stared at Mingan at the moment, but since he look new and was only a wolf not so long ago, she sadly took a deep breath and decided to tell him anyway.

"Well you see Mingan...I, well." She started to say, but it almost seem impossible to tell him what had happen in her human past. "One day my grandmother trip and badly broke one of her hips. Then one month later, she got really sick and then a few weeks later that same month, she passed away." She said sadly. "And then two years later after that, my parents got a divorced and then I never saw my father again after that. I was still living with my mother after my father had left, but then I ran away that same night while she was asleep." She said.

"Over the past few days and months, I couldn't stop thinking about my past and it made me suffered a lot terribly and it was just too painful for me to think about it. So then one day, I went up to the mountain where the lights touch the earth, and then all of a sudden, I got transformed into a bear." She finished.

[Mingan]

"Odd," Mingan muses quietly, "I wonder why the Great Spirit turned you into a bear. I thought things like that only happened as punishment for something, but it doesn't seem like you did anything wrong."

Mingan looks down at his forepaws, his gaze unblinking as he lapses into deep thought. After several moments of expressionless staring, he looks up at Nadine briefly, then his gaze shifts outside into space.

"I suppose it's only fair that I tell you my story," he sighs after a long pause, "As a human, I lived in a village on the other side of the place where the lights touch the earth. We lived at the foot of a grat mountain forever topped with snow. One day, there was an avalanche and...I survived...but I never found my family. I'm certain they were killed. Anyway, with no other reason to go on, I went up to the place where the lights touch the earth to end it all. Before I could do any such thing, I was turned into a wolf and now...here I am."

[nadine]

"Oh I see." Nadine said sadly as her bear ears drooped down sadly. "I'm awfully sorry to hear about the loss of your family Mingan. But I suppose the great spirits could do more than just transformed a human into a animal as punishment. So I'm sure there are more other ways besides that." Nadine said to Mingan.

[Mingan]

"I suppose," Mingan shrugs, sounding uncertain, "I can't figure out any other reasons why such a thing would happen other than punishment. Perhaps these reasons will be revealed someday...to both of us."

[nadine]

"Maybe perhaps you're right." Nadine said to Mingan. She didn't know what else to say, but she did know that Migan did made a excellent point.

[Mingan]

"Well, I don't think I can stay here much longer," Mingan sighs, finally staggering to his paws and shaking his fur, "I must keep traveling. I don't belong here. Actually...I don't know where I belong now, so...I guess I'll just have to keep moving until I find a place to belong."

[nadine]

"Wait Mingan, don't go. We don't want you to wander off by yourself. You need someone to look out for you and keep you company and protect you in case you're in danger. And if you ask me, I am very grateful that you have met us. I have never been friends with a wolf before and you're the most kindest wolf I have ever met." Nadine said to him.

[Mingan]

Mingan pauses in mid-limp, his injured paw suspended a few inches off the ground as he turns and looks over his shoulder at Nadine. Heaving a heavy sigh through a sad sort of smile, he gingerly settles on his haunches and lets his gaze drift outside.

"I'm grateful to have met you both too," he replies, ears lifting just a little, "But I don't want you two to put your lives on the line and run a risk in being hurt or killed on my account. That would not be fair to either of you. Besides, you've done so much for me already..."

He trails off and looks down at his large forepaws, wishing the one wasn't injured so he would not feel like such an invalid. He looks back up at Nadine and forces a feeble smile, his tail wagging a bit and then lying still at his side.

"I'm sorry," he apologizes quietly, "I shouldn't be turning down your friendship. I really need friends right now and I'm sure you do as well. I just don't want to see anyone wind up hurt because of me."

[nadine]

Nadine goes out after Mingan before he could even leave. "Listen Mingan, its very kind that you aren't turning down our friendship. But you can't just leave us. You're the only true friend that we ever got and neither one of us have no where to go. Please Mingan, stay with us. I'm begging you." She beg at him.

[lil_nadi9]

Nadi streached and actually woke up a bit. She turned and noticed that moth Minegan and Nadine were outside the cave. Hopping up, she trotted out there to see what they were doing. "Woah, hold it, you two weren't going somewhere were you?" she asked, glancing from one to the other.