home.”

 “Do we have to?”

“Yes we do, you will see your friend another day.”

      With that the family walked home, with Aurora thinking about her new friend and wondering when they would meet again. A couple of days later the family was once again out on the ice when Polar Bear spirit appeared out of the snow followed by two young cubs.

“Good day to you Aniou, Kar. Kuno, Valeria, Aurora these are my cubs my daughter Nanu and son Iluq (means frost).”

“Greetings Anana (means beautiful) I am pleased to see you” Aniou replied as the cubs walked up to each other.

 “Hello my name is Nanu.”

“Valeria”

“Kuno”

“Iluq”

“Aurora”

“Do you like to play tag?” Kuno asked.

“We love to” Iluq replied grinning from ear to ear.

         Within seconds the cubs were happily chasing each other across the ice, laughing as they ran and batting each other playfully with their paws. Running this way and that the cubs jumped across small gaps in the ice. From the distance their parents watched, grinning at their cubs antics. Racing up a hill the cubs slid down it, laughing when they hit each other at the bottom before running back up the hill to do it again. Their parents watched happily as their children became friends with each other.

     As the days passed the friendship between the wolf and polar bear cubs grew, with Valeria and Nanu developing a close bond, a bond which was shared strangely enough by a female snow owl chick. All parents had been shocked at first, but all agreed the trio were firm friends. Kuno formed a friendship with Iluq and two of Clouds pups, the group constantly causing mischief and worry for their parents. Aurora was a little different from her brother and sister, a little dreamy, she began to show signs of magic early, the first indicator being when she accidently turned Fell’s fur light blue! Naturally all had been shocked but she had still managed to reverse it, with Aniou beginning to teach her daughter. A couple of days after the incident the Bald Eagle spirit had arrived and informed all that Aurora had all of Aniou’s spirit powers. When she was not playing with her siblings and friends she was often found talking to the mermaid Kesuk. From Kesuk Aurora heard tales of distant lands, arctic whales, and wondrous adventures. What fascinated Aurora most were the narwhals and their mysterious land form.

     Summer arrived to the arctic bringing with it warm days and contuse daylight, life bloomed, there was plenty of pray for the pack, the living was good.

      Kuno, Valeria and Aurora two months old, it was mid August. Aurora walked along the beach a little way from the den site but still within the bounds her parents had set. The little she wolf was curious, as something was drawing her to that section of the beach. Then she stopped sniffing the air and pricking her ears, turning her head to face the sea. Then she saw them narwhals emerging from the waves, yet they were glowing white. Aurora watched in awe as bright white unicorns emerged from the sea, they were nothing like she had seen before. Spotting her a few of the heard looked her way, most ignoring her, others curios and welcoming.

  “Hello little one, you are a spirit cub, I am Moondance” said a female walking over.

“My name is Aurora my mother is Aniou.”

“She is kind, our spirit spoke of her welcome Aurora.”

“Wow I did not know narwhals could become….what are you?”

“We are narwhals, yet in this form we are called unicorns by humans, we are creatures of the sea and land” Moondance replied nuzzling Aurora. “We are children of the moon, just as you are.”

 “Oh you are so beautiful” Aurora replied as Moonlight led her into the grazing herd.

   Walking among them Aurora marvelled at their beauty, their long slim legs, their horns, glittering silver hooves and their brilliant blue eyes. The gentle creatures looked at her with curiosity, foals ran up to her, nuzzling her, with one female with unusual purple eyes stopping to talk to her. Because of her eyes the foal had been named Amethyst. Walking foal and cub talked about their families and their power, something which marked both of them out from their families. As the afternoon wore on one of the unicorns, a large male who was Amethysts older brother, walked over to the pair.

 “Am I trust you and Aurora have had fun.”

“We have.”

“Good would you like a ride on my back?”

“Could I really?”

 “Jump on” the male replied nuzzling down so Aurora could climb onto his back.

         Laying down Aurora spread herself over his back and clasped his mane in her teeth. Suddenly they were off running like lightening over the land, the unicorn’s hooves barley left any prints, the ride gentle and smooth. They raced for miles a magnificent bald eagle flying above them all the way, racing them. Reaching the cliffs the pair heard a howl looking up to see Fell looking at them with Cloud’s brother. Then they were at the den site with the wolves doing a double take when they saw the pair. Walking up to Aniou and Kar the unicorn knelt down so that Aurora could get down.

  “Thank you that was amazing.”

“It was a pleasure for now farewell you are welcome to visit my herd again” the male replied before racing off.

   “I see you have been making friends” Aniou said as she led the cubs to the den.

“It was amazing, there was as foal with purple eyes, she is my friend.”

“Purple eyes that is rare among their kind” Aniou replied as the cubs fell to sleep.

“What was that creature?” Kar asked. “It looked like a caribou yet it had a narwhal’s horn.”

  “It was a narwhal in land form, a unicorn what form is called” Aniou replied as they fell to sleep.                                        

    The power within 

As the summer passed the cubs grew, but winter comes early to the arctic by the time the end of August arrived it was starting to get colder. Slowly the ice thickened and winter arrived the north. Still for the wolves hunting was good so the pups grew health, as did their powers, for Aurora and Valeria each had power within them.  In the latter the spirit powers of Aniou were weak, something with confused her and her mother.

  One could day in November Valeria as playing in the snow with her snowy owl friend Qilaq (meaning sky or heaven), both racing each other trying to see whether fly or running was faster. As she ran Valeria jumped in an attempt to fly howling in her joy. Suddenly there was a flash of blue light, moments later Valeria found herself looking down at her own body.

 “Valeria” came Qilaq’s voice.

“Qilaq how can I….” Valeria stammered.

      The both gasped as they realized what was happening, with Qilaq landing next to Valeria’s body.

  “I have the Sight” Valeria stammered “The first power…to see through the eyes of birds.”

 “Oh Spirits you do….I must be your….it would be me this happens with…we are friends” Qilaq replied.

 “That is why my spirit powers are weak, I have this, oh Spirits I could have all three……”

  “Valeria calm down, this is a good thing. I’ve an idea go back to your body the lets go to lake and test this.”

“Good idea.”

     Seconds later the she wolf was back in her body and the pair headed to a small lake not for from the den site. Laying down Valeria imagined herself in Qilaq’s body, seconds later she was.

  “Ready?” asked Qilaq.

“Ready! Valeria replied in a shaky voice.

        Then Qiaq took off stretching her wings and soaring into the crystal blue sky, climbing until she reached a height she was happy at. Valeria’s fear turned to elation, revelling in the freedom flight brought her and the view from the air.

“Qilaq this is wonderful I feel so free up here.”

“You like it! I knew you would” Qilaq replied as they soared.

      As evening fell Qilaq returned to the lake and soon the pair were heading home. Reaching home both headed to their parents eager to tell them of their day. On hearing of her daughter’s flight Aniou was shocked, as Valeria was younger then she had been when the Sight had first touched her. Yet as she listened to her daughter, the excitement in voice clearly evident, she calmed down.

  “We will teach you how to use your powers, you will be fine” Aniou said as the cubs talked.

 “Flying was amazing Qilaq and I had such fun” Valeria said wagging her tail.

 “How can that be fun?” Kuno asked. “You are miles above ground no I would rather be a wolf.”

 “It sounds nice but I would rather be a wolf or swim in the sea” Aurora muttered as they fell to sleep.

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