chapter 1

He could feel the adrenaline course through his body as he tried to get away from this place as fast as possible. The growling of the wolves would get distant one moment, but then the leaves would rustle as soon as he tried to relax. He didn’t even know if his body would be able to continue running like this. Even at this moment he could feel his body starting to feel fatigued every hop he took.

Why were there wolves in these parts of the woods anyway? It was too close to civilization for them to be here. It wasn’t his fault that he was just trying to protect the pregnant doe from being mauled by wolves. He didn’t even know that the wolf he shot with his crossbow was one of the witch’s familiars. He didn’t even know she was a witch!

He should have listened better to Sir Hobeom when he was trying to teach him about witches and magic and whatever. If he did, he would have caught the signs of her being a witch with her familiars and kindly asked her to back off and offered her some food from the palace as etiquette with people like them dictated. Now, look at him. Stuck in a small body that could barely run away from wolves whose owner wouldn’t even stop them from eating him.

Suddenly a growl reached his ears. The rustling of leaves were getting closer as well as the light steps of a prey following him.

Oh no, oh no. Oh no. This was not good. Why didn’t he notice sooner that the wolves were getting closer to him? Instead of getting a couple minutes away from them, now he’s only a few seconds from being eaten.

He found a large pile of leaves just ahead of him and he wasted no time to jump into it. In hindsight, he should have probably ran farther instead of hiding since those wolves could probably smell him out, but he was just so tired and he was defenseless and what can a body of a small rabbit kit do against a large prey like a wolf? If he ran some more, he was just going to get more tired and ultimately eaten either way.

He tried to as silent as possible, his ears low and made himself as small as possible. He could hear leaves crunching as wolves sniffed and grunted. He could barely see anything from the little gaps between the leaves. He was pretty sure that they could smell him; know where he was hiding, but for some reason they weren’t moving to where he was.

Suddenly the ears of the one of the wolves’ twitched and looked back to where they came from. The wolf gave a small bark, looking around before he pointed his nose towards the direction they came from and started running again.

He waited a few more minutes inside his pile of leaves, making sure that the wolves were far and gone from where he was.

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