Was this... all that I could be?

  I could feel my life draining away from my body, and my feeble eyesight began to blur. I was losing...

  My vision darkened, and all I could see was a slender milky white body reaching out to me. The rest was shadows and black...

  "You... don't have to close your eyes just yet..."

  My heart skipped a beat, thrilled that I didn't have to die... I wanted to live...

  "I can help you regain your strength if you would like..."

  My body was very weak from the battle with the wolf... I was falling...

  "I am afraid, I can only give you enough strength to get you out of danger... you need to think... if you want to live, you must think of what to do..."

  I thought hard... Oh, how much I wanted to live...

  What would I do if this was all there was to what was meant to be my life?

  I was certain there were many more things in store for me, maybe even on another race of this world, but what was meant to be my path was one I had no longing to leave...

  "I know what you are thinking..."

  "If I just could be myself again, return to the world of my birth... without all these... problems..."

  "No. I will not allow you to return as a human... at least not yet..."

  I wasn't sure what to make of any of this, but I could make out in my mind, that it could not be any more clear than this...

  "You must change, for your good..."

  A chill ran down my spine... I was afraid...

  "What you are asking is impossible. Why would I wish to change the path I have followed until one moment ago?"

  "It is something you must-do if you wish to return to the land of your birth, it is only something your spirit would know...

  My mind was a jumble of thoughts, though... I wasn't entirely sure I was ready to leave this world I found myself in, but I didn't have much of a choice...

  "I could become a more powerful being than I am now... something beyond human... but at what cost? Would I even be able to keep my mind beyond the change?"

  "A simple solution would be to have you procreate..."

  My mind froze over, at the suggestion of procreation... I was afraid...

  "If that is how it must be done then I will become what I am meant to be, something far greater.

  "It is not that I do not wish to live, or even see the light of day again, but I am afraid..."

  This... was a lot to think about... But I had to accept this change was what I must reinvent, what I would become...

  At that moment darkness took me...