Chapter Sixteen
Two months later…
Beijing, China
He didn’t know who he was or how he’d come to be alive. All he remembered was waking up naked, with the winds of the grassy plain passing over him. He spent the days wandering as a man, the nights as a beast, a wolf-like creature that hunted, fed and roamed until the sun rose and he became a man again.
In spite of his own mysterious origin, he’d known exactly which direction to wander. His path brought him closer each day to a small hut where a kind old man, someone he remembered somehow as important to him, had smiled when he saw him and said, “Welcome home, my son.”
The old man had fed him meat and given him clothes to wear, baggy pants and shirt and sandals for his feet, rejoicing that he had returned. Where he’d returned from, he di
