Nya watched as her dad once again grabbed his bow and arrow. He packed up his sack with food, and some survival equipment. Nya knew that her father would be gone for the night, he was always gone for a long time this time of year. The six-year old watched as her father was almost fully packed. She needed to do this now! "Daddy?" she asked her father.
"Yes Nya?" he said kneeling down to eye level with her.
"I want to go deer hunting with you!" she pleaded.
Her father looked at his daughter, she was equipped with the correct kind of hunting boots, a pack of her own, and even a little bow with a small set of arrows.
"Where did you get those?" he asked.
"Kai made them for me." Nya stated, still waiting for her father's reply.
"Nya... of course you can go hunting with me." he told her, ruffling her hair. Nya smiled as they walked onto the huge area of forest land. There had to be at lest eight hundred acre's of land there! They hid in an area with thick trees and bushes, and they waited.
They waited, and waited, and waited... and waited...and...waaaiiiittteeeed!" Nya was getting bored, so she began counting how many clouds there were in the sky, she loved how fluffy they were, they were probably so soft and comfy, no wonder they floated in the sky! The child watched the moving white globs of puff in the blue oasis above her for twenty minutes until,"Nya... look!
Nya's eyes widened with wonder, there was about thirty deer in the clearing before her that used to be empty! She watched as the little fawns played with each other. She loved how cute and small they were.
"Daddy?" she asked.
"Yea Nya?" he asked.
"Don't shoot no baby deer!" she said pointing to the small deer playing with each other.
"I won't shoot no baby deer." her father chuckled, looking for some other deer to shoot at.
"Also don't shoot the slightly taller deers with the small antlers, he's the big brother!" she pointed out once again.
"Alright." her father agreed once again, aiming his bow away from the medium sized deer with the small antlers.
"Don't shoot that one either! That one's the mom!" she yelled. Ten minutes had passed and she had ruled out almost every deer in the area. Her father was running out of deer to shoot. He had decided to just let her look at the deer when..."Daddy, look!" she whispered into his ear.
"What?" he asked looking towards where Nya was motioning to, he didn't see anything.
"There!" she yelled. He still didn't see anything! Nya had enough, she took her fathers head, turned it towards some trees, and stuck her finger in the direction she wanted him to look. She was pointing at a tree, with antlers! The antlers went about two feet high! Out from behind the tree came a deer that stood up six feet! "That one, you can shoot that one." Nya motioned to the gargantuan deer.
"Why that one?" Nya's father asked with curiosity.
"That one, that one's the daddy." she said handing him a bow. He readied his bow, and shot it, the buck went down on the first arrow. However, seeing the arrow frightened the other deer and caused them to run away."Bye baby deers!" she called to them before helping her father drag the huge buck home.
When they arrived back her mother looked like she had seen a ghost! "What is that thing!?" she asked.
"It's a deer!" her husband said.
"Are ya sure it's not a grundle!?" she asked surprised. Kai came outside at the mention of the ancient beast.
"Grundle, where!?" Kai asked excitedly.
"Right there." his mother said with a roll of her eyes.
Kai frowned."That isn't a grundle, that's a deer, but it's huge!"
"That ones the daddy." Nya stated as if it were a well known fact before walking inside the blacksmith's shop to sit by the fireplace and enjoy some soup that her mother had cooked on the stove.