The snake that bites its own tail

*midnight wolf pauses for a moment on his trek from the hinterlands and looks up into the trees..the moonlight softend by the hundreds of leaves slowly clapping in the breeze..sniffs the air for a second and then continues on towards the path to wolfenden..grey brown trunks of trees pass as he lopes through the forest silently..the light from a lantern pentrates the mass of trees in front of him and proceeds to move east he now knows he`s headed the right way..further on in his journey wolf stops..tilts his head for a moment and eyes unblinking scans the surrounding forest..the life in the forest has stopped..wolf sighs inwardly and thinks "bloody hell" at that moment to the right a patch of bushes erupts and a large hair coverd biped with lots of teeth and claws stands panting, midnight wolf rises slowly and calmly evaluates the creature...run..kill..or just see if itll let me walk away..the creature puts one foot forward and in the half light of the forest wolf notices its posture and gender.....thinks "damn..territorial male" sighing again wolf draws from the sheaths on his thighs two long dull silver wavy dirks..and waits..the creature springs forwards in a dead run claws extended reaching for its prey..*almost rolling his eyes wolf drops to one knee as the creature reaches him thrusts both dirks into the creatures chest pulls them apart lifts and lets the creatures now dead body fly over his head..shaking his head and rising wolf cleans his blades on the creatures fur and examines the now still form on the floor by his feet..mutters "always the bloody same..its always the males"..pauses for a moment and sniffs the creatures wound..thinks "Oo edible..barely" with a slight annoyance begins to drag the creature away from the bush by its feet..*

*as the sunrises we find wolf a mile up the path to wolfenden with a new set of bone implements and claw and tooth necklaces to sell at the market there along with some dried creature meat incase the town doesnt work out...*

*after holding up two carts while one of the wheels is knocked back on..removing a splinter and "convincing" a short hairless "troll" like creature to give a little girl her ball back wolf finally reaches wolfenden and bids good day to his new "associates"*

*after browsing the market selling off the jewellery and getting a new tinderbox wolf repairs to the "crazed hiefer" wondering who he`ll meet and hoping for the best*