Chapter 2: Animal.

As I ran towards the exit of my village I could see the other boys all my age stood waiting for of which was Kanen:deku, he had been like my brother since, well as long as I could remember I guess. When my father left me and my mother and for a reason that is still unknown to me Kanen:deku's family would come to our hut almost every day to see how my mother was doing but she would never have any expression in her face when they did, she looked brave and unaffected by what happened but the others could see in her eyes she was in pain. This hurt me. Kanen:deku made me smile a lot more after this which helped my mother , seeing my happy after me being so depressed for so long I guess that just made her see that there are so many more wonders in life.

"Ratonhnhake:ton hurry up! We only have till sundown!" Kanen:deku shouted from just a few meters away. I looked up at the sky and realised it was already mid-day. 'What? How long had I been talking to Kalel?' I thought whilst having Kanen:deku drag me by the wrist through the exit and across the valley with the other boys behind us.

When we got to the valley I realised that my mother was write. It was so amazing out here, it's not like this was the first time I have been in the valley outside my village but today, something seemed different, like something strange was happening all around us. My thoughts were cut loose by the sound of the other boys shouting me. I realised that had just been stood in the middle of a path for five minutes talking to myself (I need to get out more) I thought to myself with my right arm behind my head scratching my back. The first game we played was hide and go seek, which didn't last very long. We drew sticks and with my 'luck' I was the seeker. I put my left are against a tree and facing the tree lay my head on it.

"Enska, tekeni, ashen, kaie:ri!" I shouted as I could hear the crunching footsteps of the boys running away. When I got to twenty I turned around and saw some footsteps in the soft mud left by the rain a few nights before. I followed them to reveal one of the boys hiding behind a rock.

"Very original" I said with a smile on my face. He followed me around as I tried to find the rest of the boys; it wasn't hard though, a few haystacks a tree and another rock and I had found them all "Why are you so good at finding people?" one of them said. I was curious about that question though, I have always been good at tracking people and animals, it like I have some unknown talent? We drew straws again and this time it was Kanen:deku's turn, we all laughed and ran away whilst he counted I ran to a haystack but one of the boys was already in it so I ran to another which was unoccupied, I could hear Kanen:deku counting and realised he was at number 18 so without hesitation I jumped into the haystack. With hay in my mouth and ears I tried not to squirm to much in case Kanen:deku was around and might hear me. Hearing footsteps and thinking I had been found I scrunched into a ball trying to hide a little better (it didn't work) some thing or someone grabbed me by the arm and swung me against a tree. "AH!" I screamed as my breath was taken away from me. As I slowly regained my breath I opened my eyes and saw a three men standing in front of me, one was wearing quite formal clothes with his white hair pulled back and was carrying a rifle, the other also with white hair pulled looked cautious and had a scar on his nose, the other had pitch black hair in a pony with a moustache that did nothing for him, nether the less these men struck fear in to me, something that told me to remain against that tree and not to run.

"Where is your village, Animal!" he said in a calm tone as if he had been brought up the think that that was just being nice to someone. Being me and not thinking about what I do I spat in his face.