The trees were whispering to him. No, he was not on drugs. No, this was no dehydrated illusion. This was real and this was the ancient language of Latin he had learned. It was clumsy and riddled with grammar errors but it was Latin nonetheless.
"Greywarren, Dreamer, Greywarren, Dreamer, Greywarren, Dreamer, Greywarren..."
The words danced through the leaves and the trees and the bark and the warm earth. This was home. This was his land and the Greywarren had to be close. That's why the trees were whispering, right? His dark black fur jetted among the trees as he smelled someone enter his territory, his home, his Cabeswater. His ears flattened as he followed the scent. His paws made soft prints upon the rich ground. Has the Greywarren come home? Has he come to meet the protector of his land? The wolf prowled until he saw the figure appear near a pond of crystal water. The clouds high overhead seemed to knit together as they watched the ground below. Jack had served as the guardian of Cabeswater for nearly half a Millennium, typically the unseen and unheard creature living amongst trees or rocks or whatever the Dreamer created as the physical form of Cabeswater. Over the past five hundred years, the essence of Cabeswater took physical form upwards of three dozen times. Every time a Dreamer had been born, Jack woke up. He took physical form and wandered the ley line until a physical form for his sacred territory called him back or the current Dreamer died and Jack fell asleep again.
He hadn't been woken up in at least fifty years. This was the longest he had been sleeping in the forest upon the ley line. His restless bones called him to wake now.. It had been now what, seventeen years (maybe eighteen) since the latest Dreamer was brought into the world. Now Jack needed answers. How had he been asleep for an entire generation? Had Cabeswater been awake this entire time or was it sleeping with Jack? The Dreamer had a father that was also of his kind; why hadn't he been woken for the father?
Jack could barely remember the last time his home had a physical form.
The shifter prowled closer, brilliant golden eyes gleaming in the midst of the dark trees. He tilted his head and sniffed the air. Yes, this was the intruder. The large wolf stepped out of the shadows, his shoulder reaching the height of a sapling. Both ears were pricked up in curiosity and wariness. Now in full view, he was a sight to behold. Silver streaked little areas on his back but the rest of him was like the midnight sky had spilled upon his coat. Both golden eyes were locked onto this one person. As soon as he was on the opposite side of the pond, Jack shifted down, now simply a human with his hands shoved in his pockets. The only thing that hadn't changed was the stunning gold eyes.