Lionel nods and leaves for the village.

Evan beacons me to the wagon and says:

He hands me some leather clothing, sturdy, but they fit a bit too big, and are uncomfortable over my fur, though I suppose I look less like a savage child now and more like a farmer… a farmer with a cape that hides his whole body, so basically an outlaw, though I now also have a belt I can hang my stiletto on, so I can carry it.

A few minutes pass and I can see Lionel come out the village gates, followed by a few guys and a herd of sheep and I start making my way to Lionel followed by the others.

Once rejoined Lionel says

I nod… not very happy to play bait, but dogs can’t climb trees, right? I should be safe if I just climb.

We reach a grassland about an hour away from the village and the herders prepare the herd for grazing, while we just set up camp.

I ask, curious.

She answers trailing off a bit.

Evan chimes in

I nod and ask

Marina answers .

I ask

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I chuckle and say

Marina blushes and says:

Evan says snickering:

Marina becomes red at this point and says flustered:

I ask:

Lionel says:

Suddenly I stopped chit-chatting as I heard sheep getting panicked, and shortly after the adventurers picked up on it too and got up.

Lionel said and, started running to the commotion followed by me and the others.

I take point as I was told to and we rush to the panicking sheep and see about 3 wolves trying to scare sheep away from the herd and catch them.

I run at them and they notice me almost instantly and start growling at me, but then see Lionel and the others coming in too and decide to back down, but I'm quick enough to be able to chase them.

The plan works and after a few minutes of chase inside a nearby forest, I find myself surrounded… I have to say it's not a pleasant thing to be surrounded by at least 10 wolves… they are all about my size… without getting on two legs and they circle me.

I just need to buy time right? I have no idea how far they are so I just stare down at the wolves as they study me, I don't want to use magic before the others come, in case they get spooked and run away. So I just assume the fighting stance Evan taught me and get ready.

It didn't take long for the wolves to start attacking me, though no more than one or 2 of them attacked me at once and I could fairly easily dodge and scratch them… though it wasn't simple at all to make sure they didn't drag me down as when one lunged at me another was already trying to bite my leg, but thankfully my keen senses helped me, and met every open mouth with a swift kick, though the wolves learned fast, and, I am not good enough to switch things around to keep the upper hand.

Thankfully as the wolves were starting to land blows and bites an arrow hit a wolf square in his side and he collapsed.

I got surprised by that and lost focus on the wolves surrounding me, and one of them jumped on me and I couldn't dodge in time, though when I fall with the wolf on top of me, he didn't seem to move, in fact, he just lays on top of me limply. It takes me way too long to smell the blood and realize that the wolf is dead… probably an arrow or something, good save… it might just be good to play dead, the wolves would probably not mind me, though they might run away, I doubt 2 wolves would be enough.

I push away the dead wolf from on top of me and raise quickly to my feet, the wolves are running away from the arrows and I need to think fast.

I decided magic would be useful. wolves should be scared of fire and it would stop their running away, I just needed to “throw” it in front of them, so I focused on the ground a few leaps away from the running wolves and summoned magic.

I didn't expect it to work but somehow it did, a small line of fire appeared in front of the running wolves making them skid to a halt and then split to the side of it, hoping to not completely exhaust my magical reserves I cast my magic again projecting more fire until the wolves could only run back towards me and the adventurers.

I just stood there making sure the wolves did not flee and they charged me, I couldn't do much but trip a few of them, leaving them with a few scratches as they charged past me, but by the time they managed to run away 6 of them were on the ground, dead or about to be.

Lionel came up to me and patted my shoulder, then he said:

I nod and walk over to the wolves, not really knowing what to do, though when I get to them hunger came back to me and I kneeled over the nearest one and gave it a bite, a gentle one and I felt energy flowing into me, the hunger didn't stop so I continued, doing the same to all the wolves. Why is it called life energy if you can get it from dead creatures? I need to inquire more… If I want to survive in this world I need to know more.