Thor by Wayne Smith

Author:Wayne Smith
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Published: 2011-02-12T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“Well, if it isn’t the asshole,” Janet said, confident that the kids were still upstairs sleeping. She felt like she’d been up all night, but she was still glad Thor had been on the alert. As much as she loved jogging in the woods, she didn’t always feel safe living so close to them. And it wasn’t animals that worried her.

She’d considered skipping her morning jog today, but decided if Thor wasn’t worried, she wouldn’t worry. If last night’s uproar proved anything, it was that no intruder could sneak past Thor.

“You better be careful when Dad comes down,” she warned. “He wasn’t very impressed with your little performance last night.”

Thor watched and listened expectantly as Mom spoke, and though her words meant nothing to him, her tone was soothing. She was trying to sound stern (and thinking she was doing a good job), but her voice revealed her inner forgiveness. Thor wasn’t surprised. He and Mom shared a powerful common bond: They both worried about the Pack’s safety every day.

Thor kissed her hands to apologize for last night, and they stepped out together into the early-morning sun.

Thor sprinted across the yard, nose to the ground, occasionally looking up as if he expected to see someone coming. Instead of crossing the creek and starting into the woods, he stopped just short of the water, sniffed the ground for a second, then followed his nose back to the garage stairs.

He’d picked up Uncle Ted’s latest scent trail, mixed with traces of the Bad Thing. It was a fresh, strong trail, only an hour or two old. Uncle Ted must have returned while Thor was sleeping. The new trail backtracked along the original trail precisely. Thor followed it up the stairs and sniffed around the edges of the apartment door as Mom stood watching him, bewildered.

As far as he could tell, Uncle Ted was inside the apartment. He could hear heavy snoring inside, and though he’d never heard Uncle Ted snore before, he assumed it was him. There was, after all, no other scent trail on the stairs.

Satisfied that he’d learned all he could, he hurried back down the stairs and carefully urinated on all the fence posts in the driveway, stopping to sniff each one to be sure it was well marked. He crossed the creek and marked all the nearest trees in the same meticulous fashion, then started back to rejoin Mom. About halfway across the yard, he had an afterthought. He trotted back to the base of the garage stairs and urinated on the bannister.

“Hey!” Mom yelled, more surprised than angry. Thor ignored her. He finished the job in seconds and sauntered up to her, smiling and wagging his tail as if nothing unusual had happened. She shook her head in wonder at his odd behavior and together they started off into the woods.

She felt a strange mix of reassurance and apprehension at the way he never left her line of sight and frequently doubled back to be close to her.

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