Selasa, 02 Desember 2014

Storytelling



The Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf
This isn’t the usual cliche horror story. This is not a story that has a happy ending. This is actually, a story of the wolf.
So, as you know, the wolf is a fearsome creature. He ruled the woods alone. He topped the food chain in the woods. The wolf has a secret. He was lonely. He grew up in a pack of wolf. He was used to having much skinship and cuddlings. Outside, he might be the fearsome big bad wolf but inside he was a fuzzy teddy bear.
The Red Riding Hood is devastated. She didn;t know whether she could continue to live like. The thing is, she had just lost her dear grandmother due to old age. Her one and only  guardian and the figure she looks up to. Now it’s only her against the world. Sure, the villagers would keep their promise to look after her, but it wouldn’t be the same as before.
She used to be an energetic, lively and talkative child, but since her loss it changed. The villager who took care of her, Tina, have repeatedly found her crouched inside her wardrobe, crying and hyperventilating, shivering out of fear. She had trouble sleeping because she often had severe panic attacks whenever she sleeps. Whenever she closes her eyes and sleep all hell breaks loose and she would scream on top of her lung, tears streaming down her face. She would spend the rest of the night tucked inside her wardrobe, shivering.
But the one place where she could act normal is in the woods. She don’t know why, but she feels safe in the woods, contrary to what the villagers’ said about the woods. She would escape her caretaker to the woods.



And one point, the wolf noticed that there was a change of atmopshere. He smelled something different, like an electric current hanging in the air. Suddenly he caught a scent. A scent so strong it hurt his olfactory buds just by smelling it. It brought the image of a safe haven to his mind. He rushed forward, searching for the owner of the scarce scent. He skidded to a halt when he found the owner of the scent was a little girl. Wet, cold, shivering child. She was sitting between two big roots of a tree and pulling her knees closer to support her weighing little head.  He could practically smell massive fear blossoming from her tiny stature, a contradiction that conjured sense of sympathetical uneasiness in his heart.
He broke down at the sight. How could a child be so miserable and devastated? He whimped and insctinctively strode closer to the child. She glanced up, not even surprised by a small measure that a big rowdy wolf was coming toward her. He nudged her by her shoulder. She croaked “Go away”, and tossed aside her body and hugged herself, clearly trembling out of nothing. He tried something else, he pushed forward so that his body was wrapped around the little girl. She cant help but lean to the warmth of the wolf. He snuggled closer and put his snout under his paw. She hugged him and calmed down. They stayed like that for a while, until she finally fell asleep.
That was only an example of how they spent their encounters in the woods. Her caretakers began to worry though, that the red riding hood would someday go into the woods, and never come back. The fear growed bigger everyday, because the red riding hood spent more time in the woods doing god knows what than in her house. Sure she no longer suffer from panic attacks and seizures since she began to spend time in the woods, but her caretaker was aware that there were dangers lurking in every corners of the woods. She warned red riding hood frequently about it, but everytime she would go into a fit of rage and escaped into the woods, again. She remembers that the village once had a problem long time ago because the villagers went missing in the woods, so clearly she has reasons for her fear.
So the caretaker told the other villagers about the problem, and they decided that no, the red riding hood can no longer visit the woods,for her own safety.
She Ran away to the woods the next day.

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