Hi! I just wanted to thank allllll of you reviewers, favorite-rs and alerters! I'm really happy that y'all like this fanfic!
So, what's up? How's things?
I'm sorry that I haven't updated... :( I am in some crazy classes (Like *cough cough* Anatomy/Physiology and Pre-AP English 2) and I might not be able to update really often... maybe more in a few weeks to a month... yeah... maybe... I'm going to try...
I'm also sorry that this chapter is so short... :D
By the way... while I wasn't updating I read and finished Fire! I love it! Can't wait for the next one either!
P.S- This is the last chapter that I wrote this summer so I'll get to writing... actually after I get finished posing this chapy I think I will start writing chapter 7... so...yeah...
P.S.S I do not own Graceling! :(
P.S.S.S Thank you to the reviews that told me to add more detail, and I'm sorry, I wrote these chapters out of boredom and at most times around two in the morning, I reread this chapter and noticed a big lack in details that needed to be added. I will try to add more and be more descriptive. I may rewrite this chapter because of lack of detail. :D I hope you enjoy it anyway.
P.S.S.S.S I'll let you read now.
Ashen's POV
I noticed a pattern to the hunting, Faer always hunted. Daran said that his father was elderly, but he never asked to hunt.
"Why don't you ever hunt?" I asked Daran one night after his father set out.
"I never learned how." He said while trying to spark a flame for the fire.
"Why?" I asked before I could help it.
"Because I had to learn other jobs to make money and never had a opportunity. When my friends were learning to hunt I was learning how to bake, sew and write." He said with an angry glint.
"I could teach you." I offered. He looked at me, "What?" I asked.
"You can hunt?" He asked, I nodded. He shook his head mumbling.
"What?" I asked, I was getting angry.
"I don't think you can." He said laughing softly.
"Well then, If you want to learn how to hunt I will teach you." I said, quietly. I wasn't going to be insulted.
"You should take the opportunity." Faer said stepping out of the woods two birds. "If she says that she can hunt and she is willing to teach you then you should be willing to learn." he said to his son.
"Then its settled. We will hunt tomorrow night." I said crossing my arms.
"It will be nice to rest while you both hunt. I could also use the quiet." he said laughing.
Daran mumbled something about us teaming up on him, I laughed.
~*~(TIME LAPSE THINGY)
"Why did you leave your bird?" Daran asked me. We had just set out for the hunting lesson. We had set out two hours before dark so that he could learn.
"I left him because he will scare away all of the animals." I said quietly. I took steps gently; trying to be as quiet as I could. "You need to be quiet," I told him as he stepped on another branch and caused birds to fly. "If you were an animal you wouldn't be expecting anyone if there wasn't any noise, but if you heard a noise then you would run because the noise means danger." I whispered to him. He nodded.
We walked for a few more minutes. In between two trees there was a rabbit. I pointed to it, he nodded.
He pulled an arrow and aimed. I whispered words of encouragement and told him to aim higher or lower. When he was ready, he let go. He narrowly missed the animal. I smiled at him thought. Sticking out of the grass there was the arrow; the arrow was in the spot where the rabbit was standing.
"That's good. You barley missed." I smiled an patted him on the back.
We hear running water minutes from the rabbit, when we arrive there are ducks on the shore. We both aim, because if he misses then I can catch dinner. We release the arrow at the same time.
~*~(TIME LAPSE THINGY)
We arrive back at the camp with two ducks slung over his shoulder.
"You did good, boy. Or did the lady catch them?" Faer asks.
"He caught one and I caught one." I said smiling.
"She is a good teacher." Daran said quietly smiling.
"Great seas!" I exclaimed. Both men jumped up looking for danger.
"What?" Faer says.
"That is the first time I have seen him smile out of happiness." I said laughing. Faer joined in on my laughter, Daran on the other hand looked a little pink on the cheeks before he turned around to gut the ducks.
We made a habit of the hunting lessons, and when Daran had learned all I could teach then it was us hunting together.
I learned a lot about him during our hunting sessions. He had two close friends, both of whom he missed. He had three sisters that were younger than him, they stayed with his mother when he and his father were out. He loved nature. He knew how to make a sword, but not how to use it. I offer to introduce him to Lady Katsa and she could teach him how to fight, but he refused. He didn't really like my mother or my father. He wishes to meet their child to see if they really had a child or if it was a joke.
I find myself wanting to tell him that I am my mothers daughter, but that would put me and my parents in danger.
He asks me of my grace, but I don't go into detail. It would be hard to explain that I am death's partner.
I wonder if he would except me if he knew of my lineage and my grace...
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