Episode Guide

Episode #2:  He Who Does Not Cry

We first see the ruins of a city, covered almost entirely in water.  Inside one of the towers, in a darkened room below a stained glass window, stands Darcia, a tall figure clad in a long, black cloak, who is looming over the unconscious figure of a woman with very long yellow-green hair.  A girl holding a violet-colored orb enters the room, informing Darcia that a wolf has appeared in the northern town, the first wolf sighting in 200 years.  He asks her if the "Flower Maiden", in other words Cheza, has awakened, to which she replies yes.  We learn then that the green-haired woman's name is Harmona, and he seems to have some sort of emotional attachment to her.  Apparently Cheza has something to do with her regaining consciousness.

** Opening sequence **

Back to Cheza in her spherical holding tank.  While in the middle of discussing their research, Cher gets a phone call from Hubb, her ex-husband.  He tells her he found something interesting, and wants her to meet him.  He brings her back to the police station, to the room where the wolf had been incarcerated, to show her the dead body of the boy who followed Tsume.  Hubb points out the teeth marks on the boy's shoulder to Cher, and asks her opinion.  She isn't sure, but they both speculate that the "dog" that escaped earlier may have attacked the boy.  Of course this isn't true but they have no way of knowing that.  But she does say that an animal of that size running free in the city is bound to be seen by someone.  She notices hair around the mallet they boy had been carrying, picks it up, then glances at the cage that Kiba had been in.

Outside, in the dilapidated city, crows flock around open garbage cans to scavenge for food.  From a distance, a lanky, tan colored wolf watches, and charges into the flock, intending on getting the food for himself.  However, the crows attack him, sending him bounding over backwards to escape their beaks.  In doing so, he trips over a cat, whose growling frightens him, and he runs away, hiding behind a pile of logs on the other side of the alley.  He peers out, whining and submissive.  Then he spots a girl and her father carrying groceries.  A potato falls out of the girl's bag, and the tan wolf takes the opportunity to eat, but is scared away when the girl goes to retrieve the potato.  Feeling sympathy for the wolf, the girl pulls some sausage out of her bag and offers it to him.  Reluctantly, he approaches her and accepts the food out of her hand.  He then licks her hand, and allows her to pet him.  Her father calls for her -- the girl's name is Leara -- and she leaves, but the wolf wants to follow her.  She tells him he cannot go with her, and is surprised when he seems to understand.  She gets into her father's truck and leaves the wolf behind.

In the alleyways, police scramble to catch a man who is running away from them.  Women standing on a porch talk of the appearance of wolves in their town.  Little do they know as they talk of this, Kiba and Hige walk right past them, scaring their little pug dog.  Kiba is taking advantage of his newfound freedom in human form, allowing Hige to show him around town.  Hige steals two hotdogs from a vendor, and eats them in the adjacent alley with Kiba, who doesn't seem to appreciate the favor.  Kiba tells Hige that he wants to break back into the police station, because the scent of the lunar flower is coming from that building.  Kiba leaves without Hige to follow the scent.

Tsume sits near the edge of the top of a building where the tree is, mulling over the previous day.  One of his gang members approaches him, informing him that the Nobles have places a bounty on thieves, and suggesting that they leave town.  But Tsume insists they continue to rampage that night.  The rest of the gang disagrees, and threaten to leave him.  Of course, he ignores this, and plans as usual.

Back in the lab, Cher had analyzed hair samples from both the mallet and the cage, and finds out they are from two different animals.  Not only that, but there were two different types of dog hair found around the cage.  Hubb decides to go meet with Quent, and find out what he knows.

Quent is sitting on a porch drinking, and telling Blue that wolves are her enemies.

Leara is walking along a street, still carrying the bag of groceries.  The wolf, Toboe, in human form this time, is following her, and meets up with her to talk.  He thanks her for the sausage, claiming it was for his dog.  He tells her the name of his "dog", and says he has the same name as him.  She thinks he is strange.

Tsume, walking in the alleyways, spots police officers loading caught thieves into their vans.  Among them is Kiba.  He turns away, and walks back down where he came form when Toboe accidentally runs into him.  Toboe is surprised and happy to meet another wolf, but his trepidation doesn't last for long, because Quent and Blue cross their paths.  Tsume leaps out of the way, but Toboe stands there still, petrified, as Quent pulls out his rifle.  He approaches Toboe, who is still frozen in place, and in his drunken stupor sees both Toboe's forms at the same time.  Quent is ready to take fire when Tsume leaps down from the building, knocking the gun out of Quent's hand.  In the confusion, they both make their escape.  Toboe follows Tsume around like a puppy dog, and he already knows Tsume's name, having heard stories about him from the crows.  He says it is his first time meeting another wolf.  Tsume doesn't seem to care. Toboe, not being thrown off by Tsume's indifferent attitude, continues talking and following him, until Tsume decided he's had enough, and tells Toboe to leave him alone.

Kiba sits in a prison cell in the police station.  The door opens, and Hige, along with a few others, enter.

In a forested area near the edge of town, Leara stands near the window of her house, tending to her falcon.  Toboe, having abandoned Tsume, watches from the trees.  The falcon flies from her shoulder, and Toboe follows.  It lands, pinning a mouse to the ground, and begins to feed.  Toboe, in wolf form, charges at the falcon, catching it in his jaws.  Leara hears her bird screaming, and runs to find out what is wrong.  Toboe runs to her, the falcon in his hands.  He accidentally killed it when trying to retrieve it for her.  He hands her the lifeless body of her falcon, and she stares at him with hatred.  In his sorrow, he howls, allowing her to see his wolf form, and this frightens her.  Tsume hears Toboe's howling, and runs to save him from himself.  He grabs Toboe mid-howl.

At night in the shadows of an abandoned building, Toboe talks to Tsume about what happened.  He also tells him about his life story.  He was found by an old lady shortly after he was born.  She took him in and raised him, not knowing he was a wolf.  She was the one who gave him the white bracelets he wears.  Tsume assumes he was raised like a dog, but Toboe insists that he was protecting the old lady.  But he felt as though he let her down because she died (how she died we do not know).

Hubb finally finds Quent, and is invited into his house to see something.

Tsume talks to one of his comrades, who informs him that no one is coming to meet him.  His gang had abandoned him, and are all leaving town. 

Back in the police station.  In the prison cell, Kiba and Hige decide it is time to get going, and break out of the cell.  In the laboratory, emergency lights are flashing.  Doors open, and at the end of a corridor stands Darcia.  He has put several guards to sleep, and is making his way to where Cheza is.  He startles Cher, and using the power from the eye hidden behind the eyepatch, he puts her to sleep as well, and takes Cheza.  Hige and Kiba arrive just in time to see Darcia walking out of the laboratory with Cheza in his arms.

** Ending Sequence **