Run Away

Jun 10, 2020

-Wait, where are you going?

-I don't know, I just want to get out of here.

I hope no one saw him and he started running through the wet streets of a typical deserted city one Monday morning. The cold froze his nose, ears, and lips, but so much hot blood ran down his body that he didn't notice. The tears welling up in his eyes also froze at the same rate that his heart beat. He wanted to return but did not. He respected the feeling that minutes ago had asked him to flee.

Nothing distracted him from his flight without pause until the animal that appeared to be there waiting for him appeared before him. Only his body stopped, his heart kept beating and increased more when he saw the gray wolf with blue eyes, who was peacefully looking at him. Nor did his mind stop and he began to ask why he was running.

What are you running from, Adrian? Why did you go like this?

All the incessant repeating thoughts in his head stopped at the wolf's first grimace for breaking with the statue it appeared to be. He stepped forward, slow and captive, like someone who has nothing to fear. That alerted Adrian for the first time how far he had run since his departure from that party. It was a dim forest, colder than the city and darker than his own thoughts.

The animal looked at him defiantly but he was no longer afraid, he gave himself completely to the cause of his flight, pushed to relief because his problems tormented him more than the possibility of being the breakfast of this moon lover.

-I would like to be like you, live in this forest, transform with the moon and move cautiously. But I can't find the calm that used to inhabit me.

The wolf backed away, turning slowly on its body, turned and started walking.

Adrian put off all his thoughts without knowing how, and even less understanding how it was that he took the first steps and started to walk behind his new company. He continued losing the notion of time and space, inhabiting that forest as if it were his house, because that is how he felt.

Guided by the fox to a forest edge, clear and overlooking the city, he saw the lights go out with the first rays of the sun and then remembered the tiny inanimate wolf that accompanied him as a child in those fearsome moments of his childhood. His mother had told him that this wolf would always remind him of his temperance and his inner strength, that nothing and no one could take it from him, that he always return to his heart. There he would find all the answers.

It dawned as it did ten days ago. The sun unfolded each cloud with its light, dried each drop and each tear, and combined with the most terrible cold of dawn to begin to heat it up.

-I don't know how I got here but I think I came to find you, he said to the wolf with the spirit of starting a conversation.

And when he looked to his side he saw no more the wolf. He could only see the sun and feel the warmth of calm that pumped his heart now that he had remembered where he was again.

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