Laying my head against his chest as he held on tightly to me, I said with a shaky voice, “You saw it too, right? I’m not crazy.” “No, you’re not crazy. We saw it too, but it was not a monster, just a rogue wolf.” Cash explained to me, making me feel a bit better, that I wasn’t losing my mind, and that thing was obviously a normal creature that inhabited the mountains surrounding this town. It now had me wondering if it was also what my mother had seen, mistaking it like I had for a monster. My mind for a moment felt like it was at ease, knowing that my family wasn’t being hunted down by some supernatural creature that wanted us dead or ran out of this town, but then my mind began to wonder, like it always does. If these rogue wolves attacked my mother all those years ago, and this one

