The sky was dark during the early morning mist. A fog was gathering from the smoke burnt buildings. Glow gems shed light on gatherings of Lupinossai huddled at every intersection of the Den. A small stream of Lupinossai were flowing to the Soul Garden, bearing small, palm sized crystals glowing in various colors bearing souls of the departed. The tone was one of uncertainty and worry. Whispers were floating about.
Throughout the mingling crowds could be seen Den Watch members clad in hastily fashioned uniforms of red and green. They each held a halberd and had strapped to their wastes short swords and a small flintlock musket. The halberds gleamed in the morning light as the Den Watch slowly herded the mingling Lupinossai toward the Den?s town circle. Most of the Lupinossai were being asked to meet at the town circle. Those not cooperating were slowly herded towards town circle.
At the town center there sat a giant water fountain with the bronze figure of Ammy Spiritor clutching a broken slavers shackle in her right paw and her left paw rose in defiance to the heavens. This was not an unusual sight. What was an unusual sight was Vuusoolta Wolf, Den Alpha, clothed in nothing but the fur his mother clad him in, standing before on the pedestal with the bronze figure pressed to his back. His arms were crossed, his muzzle unbound, and those ice blue eyes of his watching and waiting for the crowd to assemble.
Several Den Watch members were around the fountain to ensure Vuusoolta?s safety. The deity needed no security, but he knew the Den Watch members were loyal to him down to the last hair on their bodies. Several Lupinossai near the fountain looked up in awe at their Den Alpha, standing like a statue himself with nothing on. Vuusoolta weighed his options on how to appear to his people and found that appearing nude sent a clear message that he had nothing to hide.
Soon the town circle was nearly full with the buildings and streets nearby choked with Lupinossai. A sea of ears and ears were all facing the water fountain.
?Miituu deguumaas iina deguumaasoo!
(My blood brothers and blood sisters!)
Wiit poosaa viisnaa tii daagoon uuf deguu moosaat iina moorte apa oomas oopremah.
(We have seen the creature of blood lust and death at our doors.)
Paantpahm kiil saakiit. Paantpahm kiil mortuu. Paantpahm oos faafaa. Paantpahm oos aashbuum.
(Many were hurt. Many were killed. Many are frightened. Many are sick.)
Oom, Vuusoolta Wolf, yom Pahdaas Alphrans, vaahoon ooproon miituu iit giis yom dah ut uuf fiis aashpeem iina muutii foo yom niisk.?
I, Vuusoolta Wolf, your Den Alpha, swear upon my soul to lead you all out of this chaos and provide for your needs.)
?Tii paash wiisaa paant Pahdaas Mentossa kiil mortuu , uun aashriis fiiluum, iina alphoos poot iit moorte.
(The past days two Den counselors were killed, a revolt erupted, and challengers put to death.)
Yom moob dah romna biim ohmaana. Wiit poosaa caapeh tii algiis uuf fiis aashriis.
(You may all rest well tonight. We have caught the leader of this rebellion.)
Yiim ees Mogriil, basstrii sooah uuf Street Wolf. Oom pahmtii nii aash wiis kiilsii Street Wolf iina yiim pah.
(He is Mogriil, bastard son of Street Wolf. I hold no ill will against Street Wolf and his pack.)
Dathoom sooah tor dooah cahm aav oon aash hahsa nii miit saa moosa iina presuu tii miidii riis yiituu.
(Anyone?s son or daughter can act on evil intentions no matter how loving and pure the parents raise them.)
Mogriil?s caapeh paa haas iina ahs uun laamaa miituu deguumaasoo Myrlene Wolf-Spiritor paa saakiit.
(Mogriils capture was difficult and as a result my blood sister Myrlene Wolf-Spiritor was hurt.)
Mogriil wiis niimoss triiliim foo yiim aash uuf aashriis ahs biim ahs tii mortuu uuf Ferrousbane uuf Steel iina Argile uuf Shieldar.
(Mogriil will stand trial for his crimes of revolution as well as the murders of Ferrousbane of Steel and Argile of Shieldar.)
Yiim wiis taala kiil ruushtaa wuus tii aavaan mortuu oon Myrlene Wolf-Spiritor, Mentossa foo Pahdaas Wolf iina Spiritor.
(He will also be charged with the attempted murder on Myrlene Wolf-Spiritor, Councilor for Den Wolf and Den Spiritor.)
Tii triiliim wiis kiil pahmtii thoom tii Pahdaas Mentossa ees liimuush ahs uun mentossa uuf shiihahma.
(The trial will be held once the Den Counsel is reborn as a counsel of laws.)?
The crowd howled in approval of their Den Alpha?s words. Vuusoolta held out a paw for silence and the crowd went quiet.
?Oom oos nii presuu. Oom poosaa diioo deguu iin miituu tahmra, buus oom oos streepaa iit tii hasool iina faafaa yom dah aavhan.
(I am not perfect. I have deity blood in my heart, but I am bound to the emotions and fears you all experience.)
Oom wiis hiisaa yom yuf yom wiis hiisaa miituu. Tii Pahdaas ees liivaas wuus uun uuprees iina hoonii oomthoomaa.
(I will help you if you will help me. The Den is filled with a noble and proud people.)
Wiit Lupinossai paa thoom liimuush foo daarikai foo tii humara. Dah wiit hahma paa viistuu, moorte, iina saa iit oogiis hahnvaa.
(We Lupinossai were once born for war for the humans. All we knew was violence, death, and how to follow orders.)
Priin! Priin miituu deguumaas iina deguumaasoo, wiit poosaa toos toohana uuf oomas lii iina ruus laam wiit wiim iit.
(Now! Now my blood brothers and blood sisters, we have taken control of our lives and run where we wish to.)
Wiit poosaa kiicoom uun newii pahdaas uuf stroomaa, moos, iina hahma Lupinossai.
(We have become a new nation of brave, loving, and smart Lupinossai.)
Yii oomas pahviis tii biisoo uurooth oomas taat wiit oos iit kiil toos luus iina wiit oos nii ewskham.
(Let us show the world around us that we are not to be taken lightly and we are not secretive.)
Priin ees tii tiim iit wiicoom dah siituu!
(Now is the time to welcome all strangers!)
Priin ees tii tiim iit staas iikslii oomas oomthoom uudovii uun lii paa toos iin shaat.
(Now is the time to stop exiling our people unless a life was taken in hatred.)
Oom alvuu taat Fleetian Wolf iina Ammy Spiritor oos nii biisluu iikslii.
(I decree that Fleetian Wolf and Ammy Spiritor are no longer exiled.)
Yiituu oos resoo iit liivaas Lupinossai iina kiil trepuu moogeel.?
(They are restored to full Lupinossai and be treated kindly.)
Cheers and howls of joy erupted among the crowd mostly from those who found the judgment of the Den Counsel was too harsh against their patrons. Vuusoolta was smiling grandly now and continued speaking again.
?Oom wiis nii niiviis biiban uun mentossa uuf mentroa. Oom wiis nii niihahm taat mentossa.
(I will not hide behind a council of elders. I will not ignore that council.)
Tii mentossa wiis kiil pahriis iit caagiis tii Lupinossai ahs eet niisk, buus yuf dah wiim iit vaa iit miituu uunut dah aash, oom wiis fiinaa, iina oom aav iit aagoom taat aash.
(The council will be made to serve the Lupinossai as it should, but if any wish to speak to me about any wrong, I will listen, and I will act to correct that wrong.)
Oom poosaa viisnaa uun aash iin fiis Pahdaas taat oom wiis aagoom.
(I have seen a wrong in this Den that I will correct.)
Oomas yuunoa hahma iimii uuf tii utsii biisoo iina iimii uuf yiituu oomas liivuusdah ees paashaap ahs yiituu diiaa iina miiaa poosaa aathoo shaap uuf eet iit vaa yiituu.
(Our children know little of the outside world and little of their own history is fragmented as their fathers and mothers have only pieces of it to tell them.)
Nii mees! Oomas yuunoa wiis dopraath oomas, hohmas oomas, iina aaruus iit lii, buus yiituu niisk hahma iit saaliis wuusuu oomas.
(No more! Our children will bury us, morn us, and continue to live, but they need knowledge to survive without us.)
Taat hahma miib kiil maash. Uun huuriid ees kiil pahriis ahs wiit vaa.
(That knowledge must be whole. A school is being built as we speak.)
Tii mentaas ahs niimu iina dah oos wiicoom yuun iina miin.
(The teaching is free and all are welcome young and old.)
Wiit wiis aaruus iit aatoos nuumu iit cara foo oomas niimaat faamiil iina mentroa ahs biim.?
(We will continue to gather donations to care for our widowed families and elders as well.)
More howls of approval went up. The crowd was chanting ?Vuusoolta! Vuusoolta! Vuusoolta!?
Vuusoolta raised his paw for silence one more time.
?Fiis wiis kiil miituu fiimii alvuu foo tii wiisaa.
(This will be my last decree for the day.)
Tii Pahdaas poosaa sproo biis taat aashtu cahm sproo eesh uurooth oomas.
(The Den has grown large that evil can grow easily around us.)
Wiit miib viisnaa ut fiis aashtu iina sloom eet sproo.
(We must seek out this evil and slow its growth.)
Uun shiistroom pah, tii Pahdaas Faan, wiis kiil pahriis.
(A guarding pack, the Den Fangs, will be made.)
Dah wiim iit mossii tii Pahdaas Faan vaa wuus tii oomthoom uuf tii Pahdaas Viissaav.
(Any wishing to enter the Den Fangs speak with the members of the Den Watch.)
Vaa Fiim taas. Fuushaa tii Pahdaas Viissaav wiis kiil nii mees.
(Speak quickly though. Tomorrow the Den Watch will be no more.)
Tii Pahdaas Faan wiis kiil liimuush.
(The Den Fangs will be born.)
Peesee kiil wuus yom dah priinaa ahs wiit viissaav uun newii wooriis oon oomas Pahdaas caraas tii luus uuf uun newii liiroothii iit oomas oomthoomaa!?
(Peace be with you all today as we watch a new sunrise on our Den bringing the light of a new age to our people!)
Vuusoolta fell silent and turned his face to see the brightening of the eastern horizon. The Den followed suit as they watched the sunrise on this new day as a unified people.
Throughout the mingling crowds could be seen Den Watch members clad in hastily fashioned uniforms of red and green. They each held a halberd and had strapped to their wastes short swords and a small flintlock musket. The halberds gleamed in the morning light as the Den Watch slowly herded the mingling Lupinossai toward the Den?s town circle. Most of the Lupinossai were being asked to meet at the town circle. Those not cooperating were slowly herded towards town circle.
At the town center there sat a giant water fountain with the bronze figure of Ammy Spiritor clutching a broken slavers shackle in her right paw and her left paw rose in defiance to the heavens. This was not an unusual sight. What was an unusual sight was Vuusoolta Wolf, Den Alpha, clothed in nothing but the fur his mother clad him in, standing before on the pedestal with the bronze figure pressed to his back. His arms were crossed, his muzzle unbound, and those ice blue eyes of his watching and waiting for the crowd to assemble.
Several Den Watch members were around the fountain to ensure Vuusoolta?s safety. The deity needed no security, but he knew the Den Watch members were loyal to him down to the last hair on their bodies. Several Lupinossai near the fountain looked up in awe at their Den Alpha, standing like a statue himself with nothing on. Vuusoolta weighed his options on how to appear to his people and found that appearing nude sent a clear message that he had nothing to hide.
Soon the town circle was nearly full with the buildings and streets nearby choked with Lupinossai. A sea of ears and ears were all facing the water fountain.
?Miituu deguumaas iina deguumaasoo!
(My blood brothers and blood sisters!)
Wiit poosaa viisnaa tii daagoon uuf deguu moosaat iina moorte apa oomas oopremah.
(We have seen the creature of blood lust and death at our doors.)
Paantpahm kiil saakiit. Paantpahm kiil mortuu. Paantpahm oos faafaa. Paantpahm oos aashbuum.
(Many were hurt. Many were killed. Many are frightened. Many are sick.)
Oom, Vuusoolta Wolf, yom Pahdaas Alphrans, vaahoon ooproon miituu iit giis yom dah ut uuf fiis aashpeem iina muutii foo yom niisk.?
I, Vuusoolta Wolf, your Den Alpha, swear upon my soul to lead you all out of this chaos and provide for your needs.)
?Tii paash wiisaa paant Pahdaas Mentossa kiil mortuu , uun aashriis fiiluum, iina alphoos poot iit moorte.
(The past days two Den counselors were killed, a revolt erupted, and challengers put to death.)
Yom moob dah romna biim ohmaana. Wiit poosaa caapeh tii algiis uuf fiis aashriis.
(You may all rest well tonight. We have caught the leader of this rebellion.)
Yiim ees Mogriil, basstrii sooah uuf Street Wolf. Oom pahmtii nii aash wiis kiilsii Street Wolf iina yiim pah.
(He is Mogriil, bastard son of Street Wolf. I hold no ill will against Street Wolf and his pack.)
Dathoom sooah tor dooah cahm aav oon aash hahsa nii miit saa moosa iina presuu tii miidii riis yiituu.
(Anyone?s son or daughter can act on evil intentions no matter how loving and pure the parents raise them.)
Mogriil?s caapeh paa haas iina ahs uun laamaa miituu deguumaasoo Myrlene Wolf-Spiritor paa saakiit.
(Mogriils capture was difficult and as a result my blood sister Myrlene Wolf-Spiritor was hurt.)
Mogriil wiis niimoss triiliim foo yiim aash uuf aashriis ahs biim ahs tii mortuu uuf Ferrousbane uuf Steel iina Argile uuf Shieldar.
(Mogriil will stand trial for his crimes of revolution as well as the murders of Ferrousbane of Steel and Argile of Shieldar.)
Yiim wiis taala kiil ruushtaa wuus tii aavaan mortuu oon Myrlene Wolf-Spiritor, Mentossa foo Pahdaas Wolf iina Spiritor.
(He will also be charged with the attempted murder on Myrlene Wolf-Spiritor, Councilor for Den Wolf and Den Spiritor.)
Tii triiliim wiis kiil pahmtii thoom tii Pahdaas Mentossa ees liimuush ahs uun mentossa uuf shiihahma.
(The trial will be held once the Den Counsel is reborn as a counsel of laws.)?
The crowd howled in approval of their Den Alpha?s words. Vuusoolta held out a paw for silence and the crowd went quiet.
?Oom oos nii presuu. Oom poosaa diioo deguu iin miituu tahmra, buus oom oos streepaa iit tii hasool iina faafaa yom dah aavhan.
(I am not perfect. I have deity blood in my heart, but I am bound to the emotions and fears you all experience.)
Oom wiis hiisaa yom yuf yom wiis hiisaa miituu. Tii Pahdaas ees liivaas wuus uun uuprees iina hoonii oomthoomaa.
(I will help you if you will help me. The Den is filled with a noble and proud people.)
Wiit Lupinossai paa thoom liimuush foo daarikai foo tii humara. Dah wiit hahma paa viistuu, moorte, iina saa iit oogiis hahnvaa.
(We Lupinossai were once born for war for the humans. All we knew was violence, death, and how to follow orders.)
Priin! Priin miituu deguumaas iina deguumaasoo, wiit poosaa toos toohana uuf oomas lii iina ruus laam wiit wiim iit.
(Now! Now my blood brothers and blood sisters, we have taken control of our lives and run where we wish to.)
Wiit poosaa kiicoom uun newii pahdaas uuf stroomaa, moos, iina hahma Lupinossai.
(We have become a new nation of brave, loving, and smart Lupinossai.)
Yii oomas pahviis tii biisoo uurooth oomas taat wiit oos iit kiil toos luus iina wiit oos nii ewskham.
(Let us show the world around us that we are not to be taken lightly and we are not secretive.)
Priin ees tii tiim iit wiicoom dah siituu!
(Now is the time to welcome all strangers!)
Priin ees tii tiim iit staas iikslii oomas oomthoom uudovii uun lii paa toos iin shaat.
(Now is the time to stop exiling our people unless a life was taken in hatred.)
Oom alvuu taat Fleetian Wolf iina Ammy Spiritor oos nii biisluu iikslii.
(I decree that Fleetian Wolf and Ammy Spiritor are no longer exiled.)
Yiituu oos resoo iit liivaas Lupinossai iina kiil trepuu moogeel.?
(They are restored to full Lupinossai and be treated kindly.)
Cheers and howls of joy erupted among the crowd mostly from those who found the judgment of the Den Counsel was too harsh against their patrons. Vuusoolta was smiling grandly now and continued speaking again.
?Oom wiis nii niiviis biiban uun mentossa uuf mentroa. Oom wiis nii niihahm taat mentossa.
(I will not hide behind a council of elders. I will not ignore that council.)
Tii mentossa wiis kiil pahriis iit caagiis tii Lupinossai ahs eet niisk, buus yuf dah wiim iit vaa iit miituu uunut dah aash, oom wiis fiinaa, iina oom aav iit aagoom taat aash.
(The council will be made to serve the Lupinossai as it should, but if any wish to speak to me about any wrong, I will listen, and I will act to correct that wrong.)
Oom poosaa viisnaa uun aash iin fiis Pahdaas taat oom wiis aagoom.
(I have seen a wrong in this Den that I will correct.)
Oomas yuunoa hahma iimii uuf tii utsii biisoo iina iimii uuf yiituu oomas liivuusdah ees paashaap ahs yiituu diiaa iina miiaa poosaa aathoo shaap uuf eet iit vaa yiituu.
(Our children know little of the outside world and little of their own history is fragmented as their fathers and mothers have only pieces of it to tell them.)
Nii mees! Oomas yuunoa wiis dopraath oomas, hohmas oomas, iina aaruus iit lii, buus yiituu niisk hahma iit saaliis wuusuu oomas.
(No more! Our children will bury us, morn us, and continue to live, but they need knowledge to survive without us.)
Taat hahma miib kiil maash. Uun huuriid ees kiil pahriis ahs wiit vaa.
(That knowledge must be whole. A school is being built as we speak.)
Tii mentaas ahs niimu iina dah oos wiicoom yuun iina miin.
(The teaching is free and all are welcome young and old.)
Wiit wiis aaruus iit aatoos nuumu iit cara foo oomas niimaat faamiil iina mentroa ahs biim.?
(We will continue to gather donations to care for our widowed families and elders as well.)
More howls of approval went up. The crowd was chanting ?Vuusoolta! Vuusoolta! Vuusoolta!?
Vuusoolta raised his paw for silence one more time.
?Fiis wiis kiil miituu fiimii alvuu foo tii wiisaa.
(This will be my last decree for the day.)
Tii Pahdaas poosaa sproo biis taat aashtu cahm sproo eesh uurooth oomas.
(The Den has grown large that evil can grow easily around us.)
Wiit miib viisnaa ut fiis aashtu iina sloom eet sproo.
(We must seek out this evil and slow its growth.)
Uun shiistroom pah, tii Pahdaas Faan, wiis kiil pahriis.
(A guarding pack, the Den Fangs, will be made.)
Dah wiim iit mossii tii Pahdaas Faan vaa wuus tii oomthoom uuf tii Pahdaas Viissaav.
(Any wishing to enter the Den Fangs speak with the members of the Den Watch.)
Vaa Fiim taas. Fuushaa tii Pahdaas Viissaav wiis kiil nii mees.
(Speak quickly though. Tomorrow the Den Watch will be no more.)
Tii Pahdaas Faan wiis kiil liimuush.
(The Den Fangs will be born.)
Peesee kiil wuus yom dah priinaa ahs wiit viissaav uun newii wooriis oon oomas Pahdaas caraas tii luus uuf uun newii liiroothii iit oomas oomthoomaa!?
(Peace be with you all today as we watch a new sunrise on our Den bringing the light of a new age to our people!)
Vuusoolta fell silent and turned his face to see the brightening of the eastern horizon. The Den followed suit as they watched the sunrise on this new day as a unified people.