Time skip 16 seasons

A flat bottomed ship was lazily making its way up the Mossflower River. On board there were three creatures; an otter, and what looked like two stoats. They were all laughing as the otter pulled up to dock the ship on the bank.

Silent tide's pov

I was sitting amidships with my mama listening to stories of things that my ma and pa did. I know I'm only 13 seasons old but I have done a lot of traveling and I am very good with a lot of things like fighting and herb lore. I know those seem so different but they both just came to me almost naturally.

"Cub it's time to go ashore," said my pa. He is an otter with medium brown fur and a small gold hoop in his ear. He was the one to teach me how to fight.

"Alright, pa," I said back as I hurried over to my ma as she was just stepping onto the shore. My ma is wonderful, she is a stoat with tattoos all over her face- I have the same tattoos she said they are to symbolize we are juska from the juskanoir clan, whatever that means. I look most like my ma but I have my pa's smaller ears.

"Silent tide, dear, would you go gather some rosemary and thyme, if you can find it."

"Alright ma" I called already running off into the woods. I thought I heard a sad tone in her voice but I shrugged it off since ma has been having visions at night and those make her tired. I was quite a ways into the woodland now and I just spotted a nice rosemary bush. I went over to it and started gathering it into my waist shawl. When I gathered what I thought was enough I started to head back to the ship.

I felt something off when I arrived. I walked towards the ship when a breeze came from the direction of the stream. The air reeked of fresh blood. I stopped in my tracks, scanning the deck. A foxes head popped up.

"Oi, stripe tooth this ships got everything we could want it was worth killing that otter and fool of a stoat to get it" said the fox, as a rat popped up from near where ma and I were sitting just before we landed.

"Aye, this is a – hey there's another one. Get her!" shouted the rat. The rat pulled out a bow as I turned to run.

I had just reached the tree line when an arrow grazed my shoulder. I kept running even though they kept shooting as they chased me. There were quite a few nicks and two arrows actually hit-one in the arm the other in my side just above my hip. I was tiring when I came upon a ditch. I vaulted it and started to run down the path. My vision was starting to fade as I turned a bend in the road and saw a red building. In my heart I knew I would be safe if I just reached it. I was starting to stumble but kept moving. I could really feel the blood loss as I collapsed two yards from the huge gate. The world went dark as somebeast shouted something from somewhere above me.

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A.N.
I don't know if running and shooting is possible but here it is and this is where the actual story begins

And happy Easter