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III. First meeting with death



The only i hear is my own breath. i am close to the warg now... Around me are very much bushes... i am chasing him...i run as fast as I can. and the warg smells me...Suddently, there he is! Only 50 meters away! He turns his head, then he looks to me... I stop. now i do not see a warg anymore. only death. now that i look to him, i would not fight with him anymore, and i should rather go on the run then approaching him! But he looks closely to me, sets his claws in the ground. Then he makes a large jump and he begins to sprint! I am thinking about nothing anymore! I only ran for my life and dread bestows on me! Time to think there isn't anymore. I feel the wind through my hair, i look behind me and the distance between him and me decreases... 40 meter... 30 meter... I won't escape, and how afraid i am, i finally turn and i take my sword! but not bravely... I want to defend me but he makes a huge jump again to me! i get  a terrible kick and i fall though on the ground...and he growls to me...he shows his theeth...sharp as knives. This is the end! I look right in his eyes! Then it is over! He bites in my throat!

I startled in my bed! I was out of breath. After some time i was quietly. It was only a dream. I nightmare. I look around me. I am in the same room of a few days ago. yes, i am in one of the rooms of the Combe and Wattle Inn. Now i remembered it me again...

I was in the forest... the next day, i awoke and the campfire was expired. That they, i followed the mysterious tracks to see that warg. it took a long day yet before i regained the track and i finally reached him...After cutting and smashing me a way through the bushes. The sun was setting again. But i never expected to see such a large beast! It was a brown one, not dark brown. A light type of brown. but i saw his seize, i saw how muscled it was. I saw his eyes, i saw his teeth, i saw his claws...and i looked to my life. One like was obviously enough to see that i could impossible face this warg, or others of his kind. Then i was going to pay it with my life...I slightly stepped backwards...Then i just completely turned me and i ran as quick as possible...the air flow in the right direction and he could not smell me...As quickly as I could, i reached after two days traveling through wood and bushes the town again...

I am very desperate now. The only i could do at least was going to the leadership of the town to plea for aid. To set a guard for the protection of the town. And even then , i did not think that we were going to be a little bit safer then...we should only be risking our life!

I put on my clothes. i took my boots which lied under my bed. i discovered the threat but now i am nowhere... I think that i go downstairs now...To have breakfast. oh yeah, i have not a single coin anymore. i don't think that i can even get that...