Chapter 3:

Remotely Dangerous

A month has passed, Nara and his family has settled on flat area with some trees scattered around the place. After the attack, the little yordle, who yearned to see his brother so desperately, finally found him with their mom and grandmother. Gnar looked sad and murmuring about losing someone. Since they had nowhere to go back to, the family was on their own and was isolated with the help of the long mountain ranges that separated them from the icy region where they would occasionally hunt for exotic food—such as the rare and delicious white furred—horned, and ball-shaped animals whose tongue always stuck out—or gather some fresh water from the ice when they ran out of water. Nara's family had built a small hut that would be big enough for the family of five yordles. They have a big space outside all to themselves so Nara's parents did not have to worry about their tiny living space when the little yordles were playing.

Nara had grown accustomed to the serenity of isolation and he had long since forgotten what it was like to have friends around him. Since she did not have friends to play with anymore, she only had her siblings to cheer herself with games that they would play in the wide open space that they had.

Gnar and Nara were the only yordles that could be seen for miles as their brother had asked to come with their mom to go back to their old and destroyed village to search for herbs and wildlife to cure their grandmother's wound that had still persisted even after the attack. With her efforts, she had at least helped one-fourth of the survivors of the attack in some way, such as relieving major pain or fix some broken bones through her remedies. Unfortunately for Gnar, his father was not able to round up any young yordles during his search for survivors with a few able-bodied yordles.

While playing along the fields, Gnar's dad had left him in charge of watching over his sister. Although he did not want to, he agreed to protect her anyway as she was never taught how to deal with problems unlike Gnar, who was hardened with skills that would allow him to flourish in the wilderness on his own.

Being the youngest, Nara was restricted by her older brother to do anything remotely dangerous. So she was stuck under the tree under her brother's eye while she played with her doll. Nothing too dangerous for the little yordle. On the other hand, Gnar was throwing his boomerang up high in the air, running the risk of him getting hurt if he had thrown it improperly. Nara just sighed at his brother and continued to mind her own business.

Nara had hoped that his brother, Dar, was here to play with as he kept a black bug that he stored in his leather pouch. With nothing else to do because of his brother's restrictive authority over her, she acted as a large dinosaur and her doll was the hunter. At first, she imitated her brother when he was this big monster and she started roaring. Gnar gave her a glance and shrugged it off and continued to throw his boomerang up in the air.

The little yordle gathered small pebbles that she could find and Nara started throwing them at her doll. With her poor coordination, she barely hit her doll and she giggled for no reason other than she was copying Gnar.

"Rawr! I'm going to get you!"

Gnar was supposed to stop her sister from throwing the rocks since it was somewhat dangerous but he did not care as he only wanted to throw his boomerang for his enjoyment.

Nara ran and grabbed her doll to start chewing on the only remaining ear. She tried to reach for the doll's arm and she couldn't reach because of her small arms. To her dismay, she dropped her doll and forgot that it ever happened. After, the little yordle raced to her brother's side with her doll at her hand.

"Brother, what are you doing?"

Gnar got startled at the sound of her voice as he thought that she was over by the tree. Looking to her smiling and said that he was throwing his boomerang. Adding to his statement, he told her sister that if he was lucky, he might be able to catch a bug.

Naturally for a two-year old, Nara had believed his brother and gasped in awe.

"Can we get one? Please!"

Gnar got himself in so much trouble because he knew that catching a bug with his boomerang but he planned to not disappoint her sister. He then stood up and motioned for her sister to do the same.

The tiny duo walked up to a nearby bush. First, he needed to find a bug somewhere in the forest of leaves then throw the boomerang up in the air for a "diversion". Then place the bug somewhere in the weapon after it lands in his hand. Gnar still had one problem.

His excuse for rummaging through the bush. His sister would certainly ask what he was doing.

Gnar told his sister on to his weapon for a bit as he tried to find bugs. Just as Gnar had thought, Nara asked him what he was doing and he just said that he was finding something. Nara believed him and continued to hold on to his boomerang.

As he found the bug, he grabbed his boomerang from his sister's hand and threw it up in the air with his other hand covering the bug from Nara's sight. When the weapon came back from the air back to Gnar's hand, he immediately placed the bug on the back side of the boomerang and flipped it to show the little bug that Gnar had put there just a second ago.

Amazed, Nara giggled hysterically and asked her brother if she could keep it. Gnar nodded since it wasn't anything that would deal her any serious harm.

The two siblings returned to their original spots and Nara gathered some branches that fell off the tree and made a barrier to prevent the bug form escaping.

An hour had passed by and Gnar was fast asleep and Nara was still astonished while playing with the bug. She had given it some berries that she gathered from the bush that his brother had caught her bug from the air. The bug ate the fruit slowly but somehow the bug had eaten the whole berry.

Although Gnar had fallen asleep and their dad was nowhere to be found, Nara decided that she would to go to the forest near their house in the middle of the day. Nara did not tell Gnar that she was going and she had brought the bug along with her.

Nara, being carefree as a child, walked through the path that dwindled along the forest. Nara wanted something that would act as the bug's house. She had already looked through his house and she didn't find anything loose leather so she thought that the forest had some.

Along the path, Nara had encountered as purple creature with its stare vicious enough to tear an animal apart. Nara started walking backwards slowly as the creature moved towards her in an ominous fashion. Its teeth appeared from its mouth and the creature opened them slightly to show that they were meant to rip the flesh out of any living being.

Nara not knowing what to do, she started to panic and ran back towards their house as fast as she could while screaming for help.

Once she got out of the forest, she looked back and at a split second, the creature had pinned her down. The creature had crushed the bug and it laughed as it exposed its razor sharp teeth. Nara screamed for help once more, tears trickled down her face, and desperation to live had kicked in her and she struggled to free herself with her small body.

BROTHER!