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could do it without any incidents occurring.
    My hopes came undone when a huge black dog appeared in front of me in a blink of the eye. I stopped in time to avoid a collision with it. My heart began to beat faster when I realized that the animal was closer to a wolf than a dog. The image of my dream came back to me suddenly. If it wasn’t for its yellow eyes glowing so differently, I would have thought that the beast of my nightmares had materialized right before me. God, I had never seen such eyes on an animal! He began to growl and a cold chill went up my spine. They say you have to stay calm, still, and conceal fear in front of a predator. Easier said than done, I said to myself while my instinct screamed at me to run away at full speed.
    I considered the option for a few seconds. As if reading my mind, the beast grabbed the bottom of my jeans with his teeth to prevent me from fleeing. Alarmed, I tried to free myself from his grip.
    “Get off me!”
    My dreams were becoming reality and the horrible truth was taking shape before my eyes.
    “Dammit! Let me go!” I exclaimed.
    Desperate, I tried to put a blow to the animal with the leg he had in his maw. I succeeded, but lost my balance and I fell. My head hit the ground painfully and I let out a cry of complaint. Recovering quickly from the shock, I was about to fight him again when I realized that the animal had freed me. I would have sighed in relief if he had not stood there, still growling fiercely and ready to attack at any moment.
    I stood up to run, but something stopped me. Looking at the animal, it finally occurred to me. I wasn’t the target, the one to whom these grunts were intended. It was something behind me.
    Scared to death, I turned slowly to see a huge mass not far from me — another wolf. The first animal was tiny compared to this one. His coat was just as black, but unlike the other, its eyes were the same color as his coat. Threatening as ever, he had fangs upturned and a trickle of drool flowed from his mouth.
    Oh my Gosh! I thought, horrified. It was him. It was the wolf from my nightmare, who terrorized my nights, made me wake up gasping and haunted me all day long. It was he who, in all my dreams, headed straight to kill me.
    My legs began to tremble. My body shook with spasms. The fears I had thought unfounded finally had a reason to be. The monster of my dreams did exist. And I was dying. Today. Right now.
    Too quickly for my eyes, the nightmarish beast jumped on me. I collapsed under its weight. A cry escaped my lips when my head hit the ground hard again. The sound of the grunts seemed to amplify and the two animals began to fight near me. I longed to get to my feet, but without knowing why, I was unable to do so. I tried again several times. In vain. I still fell to the ground miserably. One of the wolves suffered many injuries, given the moans that I perceived. I hoped it wasn’t the first to suffer. In quite a selfish hope, I thought if the yellow-eyed dog remained alive, I would be safe.
    Maybe the dog who tried to save me was going to die. Maybe when this monster had finished with his opponent, I would even find myself torn by his enormous and foaming maw. Thinking of that, disgust overcame me, though my mind became increasingly hazy. Squeals became more numerous. I was surprised to feel tears rise to my eyes. My stupidity led this animal to suffer this terrible fate and sentenced me to the same. And making matters worse, my damned eyelids wanted to close! I fought against this growing need, although the desire of letting go was here. But my efforts were useless.
    I finally discovered the reason for my overwhelming weakness when I felt liquid dripping down my face. Hot and sticky, it was a smell that wasn’t foreign to me. It was blood. My blood. I was hurt. And seriously, considering the state in which I was in.
    A few seconds or perhaps a few minutes passed, my mind too lost to grasp everything. The tumult ceased suddenly and I