A new life

Ebony paws carried him to familiar territory, flickering lights dancing above a pool of water. A smile rose unbidden to white marked face. Hymn had missed this sight, fireflies lighting up the spring night as they circled around his form. Moving with deliberate slowness the big man moved himself so he was sitting beside the lake, the insects swinging around him in an elegant dance to music only they could hear. Brilliant cyans gazing about in wonder as though he had never seen anything like this before, the world had never lost its magic for him. His three years of living leaving him relatively unscarred, a rare phenomenon no doubt.