Chapter 4
The forest and the argument.
I ran to Husky's first. It was closest. "Husky! Husky!"
"Emma I haven't seen you this worn out since last Christmas!"
"Long day. Now come on."
"Ok."
After that we were at Sarah's and I was yelling "Sarah! Sarah!"
"Emma! I haven't seen you this-"
"Worn out since last Christmas. Yeah I know. Now come on."
We ran into the forest and I walked towards the hollow and went around it to a actual entrance. Sarah gaped, Husky stared. "What? It's only the hollow."
"The one you fell in!"
"Oh, come on."
Leaf then stood in our way. "I have made my decision."
"What is your decision?"
"Stay."
"Good choice."
Sarah and Husky spoke at the same time "Emma, are you going to make us stay with you?"
"Do you have anything better to do? No. Now come on."
"Emma, I wasn't expecting you or your little friends here."
"Could we hunt for them now and teach them tomorrow?"
"Yeah, but can you introduce me to your little friends?"
"Whoops, sorry. This is Husky." I pointed to Husky. "And this is Sarah." I pointed to Sarah.
Leaf then said "Hello, my name is Leaf."
Later, when me and Leaf were hunting I asked "How much prey should we catch?"
"I don't know. Let's get one piece of prey for all of us."
"Ok." I crouched down and stalked my prey, a mouse. I leapt and the mouse was still eating. I caught it.
Back at the camp I was watching Husky bite a piece off of his food and then spit it out. "I just don't think it's right, killing a defenseless animal for eating when we could be at home being fed by our owners! They must be worried sick about me and Sarah! Disappearing into the blue where we came from. Sarah, do you agree?"
"About the owner part, yes. About the food part, no. It's all just food, right? It's food no matter where it came from." Sarah was putting up a pretty strong argument, I should butt in and finish it off.
Leaf started to speak before I even got what I was going to say together. "This is how we survive. Can you live without food? Will you live no matter what?" Leaf gave Husky a long stare. "I thought so. I know it's wrong, killing animals for our own good but it's survival. You can't live without food so thank the prey, whatever it may be, thank it for giving it's life to you so you can have food. I do that every time I eat." Leaf paused. "I know it's wrong but we need food."
"But…"
"You little human pets! You don't need to kill prey for your survival meanwhile I have caught and ate prey all my life! If you don't want to live this kind of life, go! Just go." Leaf left. We ate the rest of our prey in silence. When we finished our food, I went to show them where we sleep.
Three days later, when we were hunting, we heard voices. "Where are they?" It was Jacob!
"Somewhere around here." a voice said that I could not recognize.