Lucy POV
I don't remember all that much about my old family, I wasn't too young when my father who was the leader of our tribe worked with the rest of the men to plan the death of a family of mammoths.
Only they didn't know that I was a friend with that family, I have a special gift where I can talk to animals, and they can hear and respond with me understanding them. I was a particular friend with their baby mammoth Douglas, the mother was always so kind, her name was Danielle, and the father was Manfred.
However I didn't know about my tribes plans for the mammoths, if I did then I would have been able to warn them, it was on the day of the attack that my mother told me, the men had already left, and I didn't think or stop once when I ran out of the tent and headed straight to where my friends were, but I had got there too late, i had arrived not seconds before the men above the cliff had thrown the rocks down on poor Danielle and little Douglas, I hadn't even realised that I had screamed. I had almost fallen to my knees before I saw the men surrounding Manfred, seeing him still alive trying to fight back, but he had seen what had happened to his family he began to stop fighting, the look of despair and pain…I think that was what made me do what I did.
I had picked up a spear that I found on the floor and ran into battle, but I wasn't fighting with my people, I was fighting for my animals. I disarmed a good number of men, I think my shouts and battle cries were what woke Manfred from his lapse of silence because he helped me after a good while and before I knew it, me and Manfred were side-by-side looking at the men and my father who all looked at us all in fear and shock, especially my father.
"Manfred, lets go" I say, not letting my eyes leave the men, Manfred made a noise that sounded like he really didn't want to do what I said, but after some nudging on my part we finally began to back away.
"Lucy, you leave now and you will never be welcome into this camp again" said my father, I glared at him from this, and when I turned my back that was the last time I saw them. And the last time I hope to ever see them. Manfred and I stuck together after that day, I had explained to him what happened, that I had never known about what was going to happen with the tribe and he accepted this and we agreed to travel with one another.
However these past few years I have noticed that he has been changing, he's gotten a lot more moodier with people, I cant say that I blame him, but he hasn't been involved with another herd in a long time, and we haven't even seen another mammoth in a long time too. I haven't seen any of my own kind either, and to be honest any evidence of them being there I have avoided happily.
"Lucy…Lucy!" I come out of my own thoughts suddenly from hearing Manfred,
"Yes! Sorry in my own thoughts, what's going on?" I ask, though now seeing in front of us that we are beginning to approach the head of a herd from the looks of it,
"Another herd, you may want to hide if you don't want to be seen and cause a scene" he says, I nod at this, even though he cant see me from where I'm sat on his shoulders, I bring out my fur blanket we found in the remains of a village a while back that we discovered is exactly the same fur colour as Manfred's fur and is big enough for me to hide under, from any other animal on the grounds view it just looks like Manfred has large shoulders.
After I am covered I stay silent underneath, hearing lots of voices from the ground, sounds like a big herd, from what I remember I know that they will all be migrating south.
"Hey! Do the world a favour! Move your issues off the road!" shouts a REALLY loud voice from the front, damn I had to cover my ears from that, feeling that we have stopped,
"If my trunk was that small, I wouldn't draw attention to myself, pal" says Manfred, I roll my eyes at this, grouchy much,
"Give me a break, we've been waddling all day" says the voice below, sounds like a Palaeotherium to me, they've always got loud mouths, and their trunks are very small compared to Manfred's.
