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   Colors of the Soul 8



   Some months had passed since I had met Cyclops and his family.  We had
kept in touch both by phone and in person.  I had visited him,
Vixen,wild,Shy and Troy several more times during the next year and enjoyed
it just as much as the first time.  It was during his last visit that
Cyclops dropped another surprise on me.  It seems Vixen had delivered
another baby girl and there was no doubt as to who had supplied the seed.

   Now at 41 ,I was a daddy again.  I finally got to meet and hold her on
their last visit and there was no doubt about it, she had the same shaped
eyes as I had but her's were the lightest blue almost the color of frozen
ice, I will call her Sky.  She had her mothers color, a rich dark cream
color and her hair was the color of midnight.

   As i held my daughter for the first time and looked deep into her eyes.
I felt something like a tingle go through my being and I knew sky felt it
as well.  I dont how how to describe it except to say that I knew she would
be a big part of my new life.

   During our visits together Cyclops,Vixen and I, when we wernt rutting or
hunting talked about our lives as reds.  They had grown up reds and took
everything they experienced as normal, they each had grown up in families,
Cyclops told me that his family showed no colors and he had been sent to
several mental facilities because of his asking about peoples colors.

   Vixen didnt remember her parents, who had been killed when she was still
a babe.  She had been raised by an older red couple who had known what she
was and had adopted her, and taught her about being red and a new way of
life.

   We sat talking about the dufferent colors, yellow, black and the ones
that never showed any colors.  Vixen related what her adoptive parents had
told her, stressing that it might not be true." Yellows seem to be the most
trusting, like they dont have a care in the world and usually go out of
thier way to meet people I kind of regard them as the rabbits or deers or
human race, easily hunted.  The blacks are the exact opposites, they are
nervous, always looking over thier shoulders.  They remind me of coyotes,
or maybe even like snakes.  They are the hardest to hunt as they seem to
sense when they are being hunted."

   As we talked and compared notes it became obvious that we would never be
completely sure but agreed that only the blacks had a kind of early warning
sense, the yellows didnt have.  We couldnt figure out the ones that showed
no color at all,at best we had only our opinion and that was based only on
what we had or had not seen maybe there had been 4 races, or maybe the
crossbreeding between blacks and yellows had cancelled out thier colors. 
We may never know, but this did bring up a certain ugly subject.  I had
never seen the ex or the bitch since my becoming, would they be reds? 
yellows?  blacks?

   Both Cyclops and Vixen were adamant that if those two turned out to be
red then they would have to be left alone as " Reds never hunt reds " that
was an unspoken rule, it left a sour taste in my mouth that there may be a
chance that I wouldnt be able to satidfy my revenge on them if they were
reds.  As if she was reading my mind, Sky, who I had been holding as we
talked suddenly reached up with both hands and grabbed my ear.  I glanced
down and her eyes met mine with such an intensity and didnt let go.It was
like I was pulled into her eyes and not allowed to leave.

   Both Cyclops and Vixen had noticed as well and after several long
minutes of just staring into each others eyes, both of them commented "
Looks like Sky is letting you know she is a red female as well".  When i
asked what they meant Vixen smiled " red females have a special sense when
they are young, both Shy and Wild had it and you just experienced it with
Sky.  She may only be 6 months of age, but she knows and can sense alot of
things, usually strong feelings like lust, hate, anger, love, just to name
a few.  She knows you now and will always look for you" .

   After they had left,taking Sky with them.  It was as if a part of me
wasnt there.  I knew then that Sky and I would have to be together in order
for me to be complete.  I started thinking about how I had been raised to
believe in the bible and had to memorize the deadly sins.  Yeah stupid now,
years of having that trash shoved down your throat on a daily basis only to
find out it wasnt true.So everything I had been taught about Sins, Morals,
Right and Wrong was junk.  I had a new life now, one that would never again
be ruled by lies.  I was a red and not a human, or was I a real human and
the yellow and blacks not?  Didnt matter.