by E. P. Clark
Shouts were coming from behind us as everyone inside the cabin came running outside, demanding to know what was happening.
“It’s wolves!” I called over to them, shaking off the strange fascination that had come over me. “A whole pack of wolves! They’ve come up to the fence.”
“By all the gods!” cried Marusya. “Shoot them, shoot them!”
“NO!” I shouted.
“We have to shoot them, we have to shoot them, get your bow and arrows, get your bow and arrows…” Marusya was shrieking heedlessly.
“NO!” I shouted again. I picked up my own bow and nocked an arrow against the string, but pointed it, not at the wolves, but at the inside of the compound. “There will be no shooting!”
“What…what…” Everyone was staring at me.
“There’s been enough killing of wolves,” I announced. “That’s the problem, don’t you see? It has to stop now.”
“Very good, princess,” said a voice behind me. I whirled around and looked out over the fence again. Standing right by it was a tree I hadn’t noticed before. As I was trying to comprehend its sudden appearance where I was sure no tree had been just a few heartbeats ago, two large eyes suddenly opened in its trunk and peered straight into mine.
End of Part I
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Other Works
The Zemnian Series:
The Midnight Land I: The Flight
The Midnight Land II: The Gift
The Breathing Sea I: Burning
The Breathing Sea II: Drowning