On her way through the forest, Egas found many beautiful places, which she had no time to enjoy.

It was still weirdly quiet around.

One step after another, now that the entire situation has calmed down a bit, Egas was still moving forward, deeply in thought.

Since she was transformed into his current form, Egas had not a single minute of peace. This meant she couldn’t even properly think about what might have happened.

Magic was unlikely. To Egas’ knowledge magic that leaves a lasting impact on a body would be felt, as long as the body is enchanted – even though she didn’t know much about magic. Not just that. Who would have the ability to enchant her into something like this in that village?

The more Egas thought about it the more confused she got.

Being transformed into a monster is already enough. Why did it have to be a girl of all things?

Egas, as most people in this era had quite misogynystic tendencies. *He* wasn’t the one to show it much but in his thoughts and with friends *he* liked to talk bad about women.

First things first. First I have to find a way to become human again. After that I may be able to become human again.

Egas didn’t want to give up hope in this situation, in which she had no roof over her head, no possibility for regular meals or even for social contact.

She was a person, who liked to live a lazy lifestyle and due to that didn’t know how to survive in the wild. That was the most severe problem at this moment. The form was still secondary to survival.

The priority would be finding out of the forest first of all. It’s a large forest full of dangers. There are wolfs, slimes, some other minor monsters and even bears!

Just as that thought passed along her she heard something.

A howl.

Couldn’t have come any worse than this, could it?

A pack of wolves was the most dangerous thing she could have encountered in this forest. Wolfes were fierce hunters, which went to the neck instantly to kill their prey without it being able to defend itself. If they don’t manage to kill their Prey that way, they maul it to death, which usually is a very painful death.

With that in her mind, Egas started to get on the move faster again. She needed to find a spot where the wolves wouldn’t attack her. The problem however was, she couldn’t see anything but trees, shrubs and mushrooms. So she just continued on her walk until she saw an old, abandoned shack. It was made out of wood and seemed to almost fall apart.

The floor was full of holes and very dirty. The windows were all broken and last but not least, half of the roof was missing.

Though Egas wasn’t happy with this accommodation she bit the bullet and searched for something, where she could lay on comfortably.

Egas opened a door. Behind that was a room that Egas could only guess was the storage room of the people that lived here before. Behind another door she found the bedroom. If it could be called a bedroom that is. Where Egas thought she would find a bed he just found a straw mat on the ground.

A bit disgusted, not wanting to lay in a wet straw bed, Egas looked at the kitchen. That one was arguably the most devastated room of the house. The fireplace of the kitchen was quite sad and there wasn’t a piece of wood left to start a fire with.

Heck, even if there was wood she wouldn’t know how to start the fire. There was a chair next to the fireplace that seemed like it could hold some weight.

Being semiconscious about her weight after Adam trying to drag her and after that also a tree branch just breaking off the instant she stepped on it, she slowly sat down on the chair to test its durability.

After ensuring herself that the chair would hold her weight, she got up again happily, knowing she found something to relax on. But first she had to find something to eat.

Going out with a lot of hunger, she searched for anything edible. Mushrooms and berries she ate as she found them, but she had this insatiable hunger for meat. But no matter where she went she didn’t find any animals but rabbits, however she already knew she couldn’t catch rabbits. After an hour of search she got tired and her hunger overwhelmed her. Egas sat down on a treestump that was close by and held her stomach.

The hunger was so bad that she was close to passing out. After some minutes of Egas not moving she heard wolves howl very close by. Suddenly everything around Egas got silent. A short moment later, Egas heard something in the bushes and some twigs breaking.

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The next thing Egas knew, was that a pack of 6 wolves were running towards her from different directions.

Two wolves came from in front, one came from behind and the rest were flanking her from the sides. Egas, who still felt a hunger, that made her drowsy and not being able to move properly anymore, didn’t have the time to react before the first wolves have even reached her.

The flanking wolves tried to chew down on her arms while the wolves from behind and infront of her tried to bite her neck.

In that moment though, both Egas and the wolves were surprised. Instead of them easily killing Egas, the only damage they have done was blunt trauma.

In that moment Egas, in a world of hurt, chomped down on the neck of the wolf in front of her. The wolf died close to instantaneous.

As the other wolves have seen that happen, they wanted to run away and try their luck on another prey. But to the dismay of two of the wolves, Egas instinctively grabbed two of them and they couldn’t free themselves from her grip. Next Egas chomped down on the first of the two wolves and then the other. As the other three wolves have seen that, they ran away with their tail tucked in. She looked like an easy meal but they were mistaken and suffered the price of that.

No matter what happens the other wolves would stay away from this place for the next few generations.

For Egas it was a very long and rough day. After the wolf attack Egas ate one wolf completely, including bones, as if driven through sheer instinct with no rationality. Slowly regaining her mind, she looked around and at herself. There were two wolf corpses laying there and everything on her was soaked full of blood. This didn’t leave much opportunity to think about what just happened. But how did it happen? Last thing Egas remembered was that she sat down and had a lot of hunger. Everything after that was blank on her mind.

After checking that there were no wounds on her body, she took the two corpses with her to the hut. Once she reached the hut, she took water out of a well, that was conveniently placed right next to the hut and washed herself with it.

Then she searched for some firewood and kindling and a flint stone. How hard could it be to make a fire without knowing anything about it?

A few hours later Egas still didn’t manage to make a fire. The leafs he picked up as kindling were too wet so they wouldn’t catch the spark. After that Egas just sat down and let the day go through her head once more. It was the worst day of her life and she didn’t even know how it came to it. Best she could do was lay down and sleep and everything would be back to how it was before.

After this long day Egas eyes got heavy while she was still sitting in the chair contemplating on her day and what to do next. Slowly she fell asleep. That sleep would go on from the early night where she fell asleep until the sun being at the zenith of its height. In the middle of the day Egas woke up again. Sunshine’s are enveloping her but she didn’t feel hot. But the sun didn’t just shine on her but also on the fireplace with the leaves still on it.

After that long sleep, Egas felt an immense hunger again, so she tried to make a fire again to cook the wolves. To her surprise, the fire instantly started. Quickly she threw the wood on the leafs and the fire started spreading. Now she wanted to throw the wolves onto the fire, but suddenly she realized: one can’t cook the wolves while they had their fur still on them and the organs in them. It would ruin the meats taste.

After searching for a short time she found a sharp knife. She used that knife to cut chunks of meat out of the wolves and take the pelt off of it. There were also some cooking utensils on the ground so she took a pan and fried the meat in it. However, as she has never cooked before the meat quickly became black. Egas took the meat out of the pan by picking it up with two fingers and took a bite. It wasn’t tasty, but, surprising to Egas, she didn’t find it too disgusting. Quickly she ate the rest of the meat she has prepared. After that she prepared way rations as she couldn’t stay here after eating everything forageable around here.

That meat too turned black quite quickly. For the packing of the wayrations she ripped off a chunk of her top and found some ropes. she used that to bind herself a small makeshift backpack and put the meat and the knife into it. Sadly the pan was too large and Egas had no way to transport it. Before continuing on her way through the forest, she took another sip of water from the well and went on her way.

Everything looked the same no matter where she looked. Not even experienced adventurers could find their way out of the forest sometimes, and she didn’t have any experience with adventuring. The way she tried to get out of the forest was just constantly walking into the same direction. After a few hours she found that the trees became sparser and sparser until at some point she reached a point where there was a cut between the forest and some wheat fields. Everything that she could see in front of her were grass fields and wheat fields as far as the eye can see. Somewhere on the horizon she could see some houses but it was quite the distance.

**Chapter 2: End**