"Where is that mangy wolf!" Tony Lewis paced back and forth in front of
King Wendell. He'd been waiting for Wolf for over two hours now. "Virginia
said he would be here by 10! What if something happened? What if something
happened and he had the baby with him?!"/PP

"Calm down, Antony!" Wendell replied, crunching on an apple. "Now I
don't have much faith in Wolf either, but you and I both know he would never
let anything happen to his son. Or Virginia."/PP

"Yeah, yeah you're right. I just... why isn't he here yet?" /PP

"Maybe he stopped to eat." /PP

"I'm going to look for him." Tony turned on his heals and rushed out
of the castle. /PP

"What?! Hey, Antony, wait!" Wendell jumped up from his throne and
followed Tony out to the stables. /PP/PP


Wolf scratched at his temple and looked around cautiously.
"I have a feeling we're not going to get back to the main road
anytime soon. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to go with this woman.
Maybe we should turn around. But she has food and I am - " He ended
that sentence with a gasp./PP

"Oh, cripes!" he was standing in front of the largest gingerbread house
he had ever seen. Realizing he was drooling, he wiped his mouth and
followed the woman inside./PP

There was a table and chairs, a couch and recliner, and cabinets.
There wasn't much by way of food around the inside, but the actual house
made up for that./PP

"Aw, suck an elf!" the old woman's shout brought Wolf out of his reverie.
"I've forgotten my magic mushrooms. Now I'm going to have to go all the
way back to the swamp. Unless I can find a strong, young man, much faster
and younger, and quicker and younger than I to go for me, since he's
younger and can move at a quicker pace."/PP

Wolf blinked. "Good luck with that."/PP
The old woman hmphed and slammed the door behind her. He could hear
her grumbling loudly through the window./PP

"Are you hungry William? I am ravenous." He walked outside and looked
around. "I don't think she'd mind if we took a little bit out of her house.
Do you?" The baby was still asleep. "Me either." Wolf walked around to
the back of the cottege and broke off a piece of the backdoor handle,
which was made out of licorice. Finishing that he broke off a small piece
of the door, and before he knew it the whole thing was gone. "Whoops."/PP