Okay, i decided to try some things out for a new journal skin because this is probably the only time i will get to do this. I will edit my background and stuff in the near future, but i have things tat need to be finished so i will mess with it later. In the mean time I will let all of you who happen to read this get a small excerpt form my Nanowrimo novel, Beauty in the Beast.

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In the village of Arson, there was a boy of eleven years old. He wasn’t the brightest crayon in the box but was able to hold conversation and perform menial tasks. His name was Ewon, however, most people called him Won.
On that day, Won had spent his morning eating breakfast, digging up worms and showing them to a girl he liked, and at the moment he was trying to take a nap in the warm summer sun.
He was on the verge of dreamland when he heard a woman’s voice ask, “Hey kid? Do you know where Lumberton is?”
Won opened his eyes hoping to see a woman with some sort of food, his stomach signaled that lunchtime was approaching, but quickly forgot that notion when he saw a large brown wolf staring at him.
Now being a eleven year old boy, Ewon did what any sane eleven year old boy would do in a time like this. At the top of his lungs he screamed, “WOLF! THERE’S A WOLF! SOMEBODY HELP ME! WOLF!” and continued yelling until the wolf ran away.
He smiled at hi bravery and the ability to scare a wolf away. He was pretty scrawny compared to other eleven year old boys.
Won congratulated himself when the men from the village showed up wielding pitchforks, shovels, and even a few of them had swords. “Hi.” he said casually.
“Where’s the wolf boy?” demanded the largest, hairiest of the men.
Ewon smiled as he stood up, “I scared it away with my yelling.”
The men looked at each other, all of them thinking, Wolves eat people that scream. This kid must be fibbin’.
“Okay kid,” said the man from before, “Good job, but next time you see a wolf don’t scream and come and find us. Okay. You understand don’t you?”
Won saluted, “Yes, sir.” and the men walked away, a bit disappointed because whoever killed the wolf would get to keep the pelt. Wolf fur sells for a high price in those day..
Once the men were out of sight, the boy decided he would try to dig up some more worms. Tomorrow his dad was going to take him fishing.
When he had a good handful of worms he heard the voice from earlier behind him. “Kid, don’t yell. I need to ask you something.”
Ewon, being an eleven year old boy, turned and saw the wolf and completely forgot the words the hairy man ha told him and began to scream, ”WOLF! THERE’S A GRIMMING WOLF HERE! SOMEBODY HELP ME!” By the time he finished the wolf had disappeared. He turned around to see the hair man about one hundred meters away.
The man yelled to the boy, “Is the wolf is still there?”
“No. I scared it away again. But it wanted to ask me to answer a question it had.”
The man laughed, “Well next time, boy, figure out what it wants to know and then come tell me if it is important.” He turned around and kept laughing to himself and mumbled, “boys will be boys. The bugger just wants some attention. I’ll be sure to tell his father about it.”
“Okay!” replied Ewon.
Once the man was out of sight, Ewon turned around and was confronted by the wolf again. “Okay kid, don’t yell or I will do something that I don’t want to do but I am getting annoyed,” threatened the wolf, growling a little bit while talking.
“What’s your question?” asked Ewon inocently.
The wolf sighed, “Thanks. Do you know where Lumberton is from here?” The boy thought that it must have been a girl wolf because it sounded like one.
“I know that!” he exclaimed. It wasn’t everyday that he would know the answer to a question. “You see those mountains over there?” he pointed South to the Ferdidan Alps, and the wolf nodded. “Well, if you go past those, which from what the grown-ups say is about a weeks walk from here, it should be just past that. If you follow the road, there is a couple of towns on the way, I think.”
Cat smiled, “Good, I have been going in the right direction.” and she began to head south.
Out of curiosity, the boy grabbed the wolf‘s tail and asked, “How can you talk. I haven’t heard anybody say anything about a talking wolf before. Are you common?”
The wolf froze, not liking the feeling of somebody touching her tail, “damn this tail… again.” She yanked it out of the boys hands and turned around. “I’m the only talking wolf that I know of, but if you grab any wolves’ tails, you will surely be eaten. Remember that.” Even though she didn’t know from experience about tail grabbing, she was certain that a wild wolf would not think twice about it.
“Okay. What’s your name?”
“Catherine. But you can call me Cat.”
“That’s funny. A wolf named Cat,” chuckled Won.
“More ironic than funny.”
“What’s irony?”
“Never mind. But next time you see a wolf, don’t try to talk to it, okay.” said Catherine.
“Okay. Nice to meet you Cat.”
Cat said goodbye, and headed towards the Ferdinand Alps.
Consequently, due to his talk with Cat, was the sole survivor of a hunting party that was hunting wolves for their tails, but when the wolves took offense from the tail grabbing, and ate those who did the grabbing. They paid no attention to Ewon because he just stood there and yelled.
It became a fashion must for the village women, so men went to remove the tails from the wolves without killing the wolves because women couldn‘t stand an animals being killed just for an accessory. However, Ewon was attacked by a werewolf three years later, but survived by starting a conversation with the werewolf. This caught the werewolf by such surprise that he met somebody who didn‘t scream or run away. Consequently, Ewon became a werewolf himself but was ecstatic that he finally knew what is was like to be a talking wolf, even if it was only for three days of the month. He spent the rest of his life looking for the wolf named Cat so that she could see that she was the not only talking wolf. The residents never knew the fate of Ewon, but when anybody asked they said he was an attentio seeking boy who was eaten by a wolf.