"Do you travel these woods often? I have heard that there is a tower somewhere inside them, and that there I may be healed." Westin asks of me, then the girl.
"I've traveled the woods before." I say placidly, setting Rose on my shoulder to rub her little back. "But the path seems longer today, the woods seem strange." I admit. Rose turns her head to watch Ylva, who is telling a tale I should know well...
but changes as does Ylva. From sweet little waif comes a great wolf, snarling and hunger gleaming in her eyes.
"I'm still hungry,"
Kate runs to the house and cries for us to enter. I rise quickly, and somehow manage to draw my sword while keeping hold of Rose. "I am not afraid of wolves." I snarl, for it is truth. I have lain down with a more cunning wolf, and bore his cub. But still...
I am holding Rose. Once I know she's safe I can deal with this. I walk backwards towards the house, never taking my eyes off the beast as I enter the sanctuary offered.
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"I've traveled the woods before." I say placidly, setting Rose on my shoulder to rub her little back. "But the path seems longer today, the woods seem strange." I admit. Rose turns her head to watch Ylva, who is telling a tale I should know well...
but changes as does Ylva. From sweet little waif comes a great wolf, snarling and hunger gleaming in her eyes.
"I'm still hungry,"
Kate runs to the house and cries for us to enter. I rise quickly, and somehow manage to draw my sword while keeping hold of Rose. "I am not afraid of wolves." I snarl, for it is truth. I have lain down with a more cunning wolf, and bore his cub. But still...
I am holding Rose. Once I know she's safe I can deal with this. I walk backwards towards the house, never taking my eyes off the beast as I enter the sanctuary offered.