The Curse of the Werewolf Page #4

to tell me the truth.

I am telling the truth.

Then how did you get hurt?

I don't know, Uncle.

You couldn't have been

hurt like that in bed.

I know I was in bed, Uncle...

because I woke up

in the night.

I had a bad dream

and woke up...

but then I went

to sleep again.

What did you dream?

I don't really remember,

Uncle...

not very clearly.

But it was like

the other nights.

Other nights?

I have bad dreams

every night now, Uncle.

I see.

Tell me, Leon,

when did these dreams start?

I think it was after

I went out hunting...

with old Pepe.

He wanted to show me

how to shoot.

He wanted me to

shoot a squirrel,

but I wouldn't.

So he shot it for me.

He pulled the trigger...

and the little squirrel

squeaked and dropped.

It was horrible.

I picked it up

and tried to kiss it better.

I kissed it,

and I tasted something warm.

It must have been the blood,

but it tasted sweet.

I wanted to

keep on tasting it,

but Pepe took it away.

I did wrong,

didn't I, Uncle?

No, no,

I don't think so, Leon.

Ever since then

I've had bad dreams, Uncle.

What do you dream?

I dream I'm a wolf,

like in a picture book.

I dream I'm a wolf,

drinking blood.

Help me, Uncle.

Please help me.

Yes, I'll help you.

Yes, it's one of his,

all right.

Where did you find it,

Teresa?

I-it was embedded

in a tree trunk

up near the pastures.

Oh, so he did miss.

I won't breathe a word

about it.

Ah, thank you, Teresa.

It would break his heart.

He's been so upset as it is.

Will you have

a glass of something?

No, thank you. I must go.

There are elemental spirits

about us...

at all times, my son.

Spirits without bodies...

of creatures

that have never lived.

Some say it is to prevent

the invasion...

of these roaming spirits...

into the highest creation

of God's sculpturing hands...

the body of man...

before whom

all beasts must kneel.

Some say it is to prevent

this invasion that...

man's body stiffens into

rigor mortis...

at the moment

of his death.

Roaming spirit entering the

body then finds only a...

dry, unwelcoming shell.

But, Father...

And you're wondering...

what this has to do

with little Leon?

Yes.

I'll tell you, my son.

Sometimes,

it so happens that...

the spirits of

one of these beasts...

finds entrance into a body...

while it yet lives.

Usually

at the moment of birth.

Then, the soul and the spirit

war with each other...

to gain mastery

of the body.

But if the soul of the man

is strong and clean...

we'll generally exorcize

the spirit of the beast...

before it is

many years old, but...

if for some reason,

the soul is weak...

an inherited weakness...

an accident of birth, then...

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