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Berenice. Just go down if you’re able to. I suggest you to be quick, before the avalanche that would most likely come when sun rise. You know… melting snow…”
“Steele, wait!” called Balto. “I’m really sorry for that… Steele! Take me down!”
“A dog cannot make this journey alone.” Smiled Steele, throwing down the snow ball. It slid to the brink of bluff and disappeared in the abyss. “But maybe a wolf can... Good luck, Balto!” And then he started to run down, fast but still firmly, as if he was guided by some unseen force.
Balto stayed on the centre of field, too shocked to move. But when he noticed that east part of sky started to became more and more bright, he understood that day was coming. The light was about to reach for him – sun was most likely would cause the avalanche. Steele was running on some other path, wolfdog could chase him, without crossing the unknown area. And that meant suicide. So he just turned back and tried to recall the way he made. Again, the way that Steele had made for him.
“Again after him.” He thought with despair. “Again on his tracks… Why? But calm down.” He ordered himself. “You must go down without any accident. Just one false step and you are out, so be careful. You’ll be careful and you will return to Berenice. That means… To Jenna. Or actually… No, do not think about that now. Just walk ahead, easy… easy… easy… Good, just one step further… good… one step further… good… one steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…
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Steele didn’t react when he heard some noise behind him. He just stopped his breathing when small avalanche was coming down, because dog wasn’t sure if it took him with. But falling snow came far from him, just in bluff direction. Soon after that sound stopped.
Steele felt free. Just free from any duty or order. Something in his heart ceased and where used to be a dark place of anger and envy, appeared just a calm silence, ready to be filled with beauty of his world.
“With Berenice and pups.” He thought. “I’m no longer chasing my daemons. I’ve overrun them. In the end the vengeance was mine… I hope that God won’t huff about that one little competition to His monopoly.”
Suddenly sunlight came from the other side of mountains. Steele was than already in forest, safe from avalanche. So then he couldn’t stop himself from a triumphal howl. At last he was on the lead again.
“As you, dad.” He whispered. “Maybe not by your way, but somehow I came where you are.”
The End
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Balto turns against Steele one more time only the prize he's
after was bigger: Berenice, Steele's loving and devoted
mate. Never thought he'd stoop to kill... but he needs to do
it better. Thanks to Victor Steele survived and they both
quested to kill the wolf-dog. Poor Victor, he doesn't have
that chance but at least he died with honor and is reunited
with Agatha. As for Steele allowing Balto to chase him, that
made sense. The sins of his parents needed to be paid, even
if it wasn't in blood but by snow... the snow that possibly
could've claimed Black and Aniu years before. Steele did get
his vegeance and can finally live with his mate and watch
his pups grow without the hybrid's constant presence around
Nome.
Other words, nicely done. Just as good as
reading it on the forum. *paws up*