The Lay of the Were-Wolf

I wrote this essay for school, it is a cool story, they wanted me to chose who I thought was innocent,
so I did.

Bisclavaret Is Innocent!

          Bisclavaret walked home from his hard day happy and content, he was glad to see his lovely bride, oh how he loved her. He would give anything to her, to see her joy brought him happiness. Bisclavaret arrived at his little house, and opened the door. His lovely wife stood in front of the sink and was rinsing her hands. She turned around at the sound of the door opening, and gave him a sad smile. He knew she missed him for those awful three days of week were he was absent, but he had to leave, he couldn’t let her see him like this, he did it to protect her, because he loved her.

          Bisclavaret sat down in his chair and looked at his wife, she opened her mouth as if to say something, and then quickly shut it. Bisclavaret saw his wife’s internal struggle and asked her what was wrong. She started to ask him about why he was gone, and that he could tell her anything. Bisclavaret was afraid of this day, the day were he would have to tell her the truth. Bisclavaret held this from her because he did not want to see her pain, he feared her love for him would diminish with this sad reality, however she kept pressing. He told her, and she rejected him, all those lovely years together swept away with one cruel reality.

          Bisclavaret was innocent of being a betrayer, he loved his wife with his heart, and she rejected him because of his curse.  Bisclavaret carried so much pain on those awful days when he was lonely as a beast it was horrible. The image of his wife being swept into another man’s arm played back in his mind over and over again. She had left him, and readily went into another man’s arm; she had betrayed him and left him, for another man because of his curse.

          Bisclavaret remembered the day he married her, she had vowed to love him through the good and bad, and yet in the bad she had fled him, left him. He had tried his best to protect her from the pain, and yet when he was honest with her she left him. The anger and pain he felt was reasonable and expected, no man would not be mad at his wife leaving him. He was honest, and when he did withhold the truth from her he did it because he loved her, Bisclavaret was innocent!

-Priscilla I. Velez-