Disclaimer: I do not own Coad or it's characters.
If you read the first book you can notice that Renn was almost constantly eating things when talking to Torak. Hehe.
Chapta one
They had followed the tracks of who-ever-it-was who took the deer for some days now.
Suddenly they heard a sound in front of them. Hord, who earlier had talked loud about what he
was going to do with the thief when the found him, went silent at once and took a step in behind
Oslak.
Renn made a silent sigh, but not silent enough for Oslak not to notice, and he gave here a
look which told her to keep her mouth shut. She nodded apologetic.
They crept forward and looked out on the path where the thief was walking.
Renn got surprised. On the path a boy was walking, in the same age as she.
She had expected the thief to be older.
Oslak used hand motions to tell Renn and Hord to move around the boy so he couldn't escape when
they would try to capture him. So they did. Oslak was behind the boy and he took a step forward,
grabbed the boys jacket and lifted him up.
The boy was very strange. He actually didn't seem to know that the deer was one of the Raven
Clan belongings, and when Renn though about it, he actually didn't seem to know anything at all.
And his only friend was a wolf! Renn didn't really have any friends herself, but she was at least not
a friend with an Animal. They started walking, and Renn took every chance she could to tease the
boy about things he didn't know.
After a half days march they reached the camp. Renn noticed that Hord started walking in another,
more self-assured way. She sighed. Her brother had never really cared about anything else than
impress on other people.
The boy who had stolen the deer looked in shock around the camp. Then his eyes stopped where
Dyrati stood. Renn felt something, but she couldn't tell what.
"We have saved you some soup" Dyrati said and looked shyly at Hord, who ignored her.
"Dyrati saved you some soup" Ren said in a much meaner tone than she had expected. Hord
ignored her too.
The boys name was Torak, and he was from the Wolf Clan. He had lived with his father his entire
life, but his father was now dead.
Renn couldn't help but feeling a bit of compassion when she heard this, her father was dead to.
When Fin-Kedinn said that the boy was going to be killed she almost felt sad, but figured that it was
the bears fault, which had forced them to accept these new rules.
Torak didn't die, however, he fought with Hord, and won.
Later that day she visited him where he was tied.
"what are you doing here" he asked her. She didn't really know why. She didn't really have anyone
else to be with. When she later found out that he was the Listener, she knew what she had to do.
She had to help him escape and go with him.
