I ran. I ran as fast as my paws could carry me, and as fast as my injuries would let me. My old wounds were still leaking out new blood as I bounded through the forest.
"Save her. Save her. Save her. Save her. Save her. Save her. Se her. Save her. Save her." That was the only thing running through my mind as I took the nearest trod and crashed back into the Nevernver.
It dangerous and it was stupid but I did it. I went right back to the place I had just escaped, right back to the place I had been fighting for my life in just moments before.
"Think ….THINK! Where would he hide her?" I growled in impatience as I desperately tried to make out a plan.
"I know he'd keep her close so that no one else could get near her. Buuuuut she would have to be far enough away so that Titania wouldn't know of her"
"DANMMIT! Why couldn't I have played along until he just told me," I grumbled to myself.
"…The garden, the shed outside in the garden! That's where he'd hide her."
I ran faster now, with renewed energy as I headed back towards Arcadia. It took hours. Hours of carelessly running through the dense wlydwood at break neck speed.
I dodged through snarled roots, trees and bushes with ease and confidence knowing that nothing would be brave enough to challenge me. It would be stupid to even try.
I danced around the outskirts of the city, trying to find a loophole, a way in. And sadly …..there wasn't one, well there wasn't one for the way I was now. There was no way a huge, dangerous, horse sized wolf could walk through the middle of the summer court unnoticed.
I let an irritated growl rumble through my chest.
I was going to have to shift.
CRAP..
I was going to have to find some clothes.
And so I waited. I waited for the next poor guy to wander too close to the woods. And I didn't have to wait long. He let out a startled gasp before I knocked him out and stripped him of his clothes, leaving me with a view of him I'd rather not see.
It was awkward, standing on two feet again for the first time in well over a year. My limbs were clumsy and tangled with misuse and I struggled to fit in with the crowd. A lion amongst all the sheep. But somehow I managed it. I snuck into the royal gardens with ease and the guards barely even gave me a second glance.
I grinned mischievously, sharp pointed fangs resting against my now human lips as I gazed upon the only covered shed inside the gardens.
"Well its here or nowhere" I spoke quietly to myself silently praying that I had gotten this right because I had no other ideas left.
My fingers brushed against the doorknob hesitantly.
"This…is waaaaay to easy" I whispered warily, a slight growl of frustration moving through my chest. But even if this was a trap…I had no other options. So with one last huff of annoyance I opened the door.
