A ghost told me to meet you

Firefly wolf?  Admittedly the dumb things were all over him.  Rudy’s ears flicked back as he snapped the air, grabbing several in his mouth just to turn his head and spit them out afterward. “Yuck,” grumbled before looking back to Fern.  She didn’t know he’d been sent huh?

“I’m Rudyard Carpathius.  Mom, that is Resin, sent me.” Did she know who resin was? “As to the fireflies,” lifting a rear paw up he scratched behind an ear, shaking off another one, “They should all drop dead.  Worse than gnats.”

Rudy glanced about, “Mom?” The boy called out, “Still here?”  Technically he had done what she said, would she just leave him now?  That wouldn’t be fair!  “Mom?” Another more plaintive call. “I love you!”  He knew Fern might wonder if he was nuts but what if these precious moments were all he had.

‘I love you too Rudy,’ the words hardly more than a bit of wind but, he made it out.  Was that it?  He looked about for a moment as if to try and see her before giving up and looking to the charge he was to take care of. “Sorry, I just, I miss her.” The raw sentiment opened up the stranger, “I’m guessing you know her in some way?”

Rudyard Carpathius