Slow and Creeping

It comes slow and creeping out of the night, following every step taken as though it is some kind of shadow creature that crawls from dark place to dark place. In the night, in the dark, it creeps out from the shadows and curls itself around your dreams. Although it is a creature of the dark places, it is not malevolent, it is not there to rip your soul out through your dreams, rather it is there to guard you, watch you while you sleep.

It is there to watch over those places where your dreams and reality meet. There to watch those places where the dangerous things can creep in to tear your dreams, rip them into nightmares and take you down deep into the dark places of the mind, deeper and darker than the shadows they haunt in the worlds that lie just on the edges of possibility.

There is this creature though, that guards your dreams, a large shadowy wolf-dog, from the dreaming times long before there was much of a difference between wolves and dogs. It too is a creature of the dark places, like dogs, back before they were dogs, were once creatures of the wild untamed places. Now though the dogs sit guard for us, keeping us safe while we sleep and the dream creature too, once wild but now tamed patrols the edges of your dreams keep them safe for you too.