'Yes, you little two-legs. I thought you were easy prey that would lessen the annoyances of your fellow two legs. But…' the wolf looked into the infinite white as if longing for something.

"But?" Raphael asked, perplexed by what the large menacing wolf said. 'You are what I thought I was. I thought of myself as the apex of the food chain but not anymore.' The wolf had sad eyes as he said those last words. Raphael couldn't help but pity the wolf, and so he decided to sit next to the large furry beast and lay on his back without a hint of fear as if it were the norm.

'So little monster I have a question.' Raphael still wondered why the wolf was acting so submissively but decided to just go with the flow. "Go ahead."

'What do we do now that we are dead?' The wolf continued staring into the white while keeping its ears open for the boy's words. "What? We aren't dead."

'Isn't this the afterlife?' The wolf was so startled at the boy's answer it stood up without a second thought, leaving the boy to hit his head into the white ground. "Ouch. And no this isn't the afterlife."

'How do you know?' The wolf was anxious to find out if he could leave the boring whiteness.

"Well first off I don't feel dead and I would know. Secondly, I was here before when you were attacking me and was running for my life. I don't know why or how I entered and left, but yes we aren't dead for sure." Raphael let out a sigh as he finished explaining.

'You would know?' The wolf got very close to Raphael's face, enough to make him uncomfortable. "Know what?" Raphael pushed the wolf's snout with his hand.

'You would know how death is?' The wolf's eyes shimmered as he spoke and his tone was serious. "Yes, kind of. But that is not the point.." The wolf pushed with his snout once more. 'Have you died?' Raphael looked down, trying to hide his shallow understanding of his rebirth. 'I have.' The young boy looked up as if believing he had misheard.

'I have died, have you?' clear eyes were all that Raphael could see, and that made him want to tell the wolf for some reason or another. For the next while, Raphael explained his situation and what he knew without missing a detail. Then the wolf continued where Raphael left, explaining his own situation.

'When I died, I was sent to a similar space such as this and I only have one memory from before that, but I can't seem to recall what it means other than that I was alive before entering the white space. That is why I thought this place was the afterlife.' The wolf walked a bit away from where he stood.

"So does that mean we are here because we have died before? And does that mean we have to use that as the tool to get out?"

'How do we do that?' the wolf snapped his head back. "A bit earlier I thought you were the purple fire in the white space, but that was not the case, but it might be now." he looked up to the wolf and contorted. "Let's use our powers to get out."

Before the wolf could ask what the two-legged creature was talking about, the violet flames of its own body began to burn without the input of his will. As he looked at the small creature, he saw a small red flame in its hand burning too. Instinctively both got closer together and their flames instead of eating and being eaten by the other became one.

The cinder molds began to crack and shatter revealing the naked creatures beneath the surface. "Achoo." Raphael was the first to get out of his prison and see the glistening night sky overhead. It was only interrupted by the shifting weight of the other conder mold that revealed a purple light that let a wolf out of its clutches.

'Two-legs. Did you see it?' the wolf much smaller than his previous self stepped out with ease. "I did. Was that what you described?"

'Yes. it seems we have shared each other's memories with one another. And somehow, what I saw felt familiar.' The wolf's aura felt warmer as he said that.

" I would say the same, but you did not have much. But you failed to mention there was someone else in that white space." Raphael narrowed his eyes in doubt of the wolf's previous words.

'What do you mean? I was there alone. For a very long time at that.' The wolf seemed very confused at the boy's accusation.

"But... Agghh." Raphael felt a severe pain cross his mind. Before he knew it the face of the person he saw in the white space became a blur. "What the hell?"