In the woods, there is a lonely little black rabbit.

His name is Coal.

And he is currently sleeping in one of his underground caves.

His sleeping position looks somewhat funny, surprisingly comfortable and maybe a bit weird. But he will never know about it.

His whole body is laying flat on the straw bed while his left hand is placed on his left leg, which has his shin and his thigh flexed, perpendicular to the bed, facing the ceiling.

His head with his black rabbit ears on it falls off the bed while his tounge sticks out from his small mouth licking the beard near his mouth.

Actually, if it weren't because of his bad sleeping habit, it would look perfectly like the black rabbit version of Michelango's "The Creation of Adam" painting.

In which Adam is affectionate looking at the god instead of the earth ceiling and stupidly sticking out his tounge like a dead rabbit when looking.

But nevermind.

He lives alone somewhere deep inside of the woods.

His normal life is a bit boring but peaceful and he's about to turn into a 10 years old rabbit kid in a week.

He has a beautiful pair of jet-black eyes which sparkle brilliantly whenever the light hits, a pair of short ears that are neither too small nor too big adorned with a hint of pink inside making you think that you can caress it all day long.

He has a nose as small as a black dot and a petite mouth with several silver threads each side of it.

A strangely short tail and a pure black fur that matches perfectly with his other parts of the body.

He is also a smart, cute, adorable and a little bit cunning little rabbit.

Sadly, if it weren't because of the fact that he has another strange habit or maybe a hobby of digging holes.

Hiding in them all day long and then coming out with a pile of dust on his face, he would probably be the cutest among black rabbits or even the most adorable rabbit in the world.

Well,...

Maybe this is his own house. And perhap... perhap he also has other hundreds houses too...?

Actually Coal doesn't really care about it. He likes to have hundreds caves, houses, holes or whatever but he doesn't know why he likes it that way.

It's always been like that since he was still very young and he didn't think he will change it in the future.

He likes digging, so let's just skip it.

***

Another point. You do find his name is quite strange, right?

Yes. Actually, the reason behind the name is very easy to understand.

It is because he looks no difference from a coal.

But if you have ever heard about the story behind it, about what Coal had went through because of it.

You will find that having such an easy-to-understand name isn't all that cool but actually is very surprisingly terrifying.

It was about the time when he was still a small rabbit kid. He used to have a family too but for some unknown reason, his family left him alone when they thought that he could live on his own. At first, he thought that they just went to find some food but then, they never come back.

He never stops wishing that one day he can meet them once again but his dream never comes true.

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Time went and so did Coal. He grew from a small rabbit kid into a veteran rabbit kid. Who earned the title by wrestling with life every single day just to live for another one after in the woods.

He still remembers. It is a piece of memory that repeats itself whenever someone calls his name, his parent always called him "little Coal" with a gentle smile on their face and some happy times he spent with his parent. He didn't really know what that mean back then but he knew that it is his name, Coal.

Yes, just like any other kids, he loved his name. But that was just only in the past, only in the past he guessed. His embarrassing past...

Until his childhood white rabbit friend bring him a real coal.

And she kept teasing him non-stop with it!

Coal this, Coal that. She even gave him one as a souvernir!

At that time, he didn't really understand.

But after he found out. He couldn't help but flabbergasted.

Who knows that his name is after a black piece of stone. Which is even blacker than his p**p!

And yet it cannot be eaten!

Coal has never felt so terrified in his life up until then. His name was such a sh*t. And he even loved that sh*t with his whole heart.

Just to let it shatter in pieces...

His friend was such a demon...

So, life was hard for him.

Especially whenever he introduced himself, he is literally telling them he is a coal. And he couldn't help but think that he was trying to advertise some kind of product...

***

But, let's continue.

He has only two person he can call his friend. One is the white demon... rabbit mentioned before and second is a strange snowman.

About Lyla, his first rabbit friend. He met her in the middle of the woods a long time ago which she latter told him that she was looking for food to prepare for the winter.

She looked very difference from him. She was pure white while he was pure black. She walked in two feet not four like him and she had something very beautiful looked warm warp outside her fur, which she called "clothes". She also brought with her a "basket" which could help her bring more things with her, he maked one later too.

Back then she didn't know that there was a wolf following her.

To be honest, she was about to scream with her face sudden turn beet red at first when she saw another rabbit... naked body which appeared out of nowhere behind her. But luckyly, he had already in that situation once, when he was still running away from a tiger but bumped into a duck.

So, he used the same method he used for the duck, he grabbed it muzzle, and the tiger had never ever appeared once again. Only when he forcefully dragged her into one of his houses that she stopped wrestle... that she knew what was happening, or maybe both.

The wolf lurked around went out of its hiding place in surprise because its prey just disappeared without a trace and sniffed the ground but after a long time it couldn't find anything so it walked away.

Just to be safe, they stayed there a whole morning, after she gave him some "clothes".

And that whole morning was more than enough for Coal to make a stranger turn into one of his best friend. They talked to each other happily while waiting for the wolf dissapearing.

Only then that he escorted her to the rim of the woods and let her go home herself after he made sure that it was really safe once again.

She thanked him and told him that next year before the winter come she would pay him a visit and if he wanted to meet her he can come to her village and asked for someone called Lyla, her name.

He actually never thought about leaving the woods, nor he wanted to so he just took note and then digged another hole... house near the position where he left her so next year she didn't have to endanger herself when she came and then fall asleep in his new hole.

After that they only meet before the winter. It was always short, but to Coal, it was something he longed for every year.

She always told him something he never knew and sometime she even brought something he never saw, taught him how to use it, eat it or... even beat it. That made very him curious about the place she lived and what amazing things he could find there.

It was really a wonderful time and he really liked what she called carrot though...

But he didn't want to lose his hol... houses either, so he just wistful forgets it.

Snowman however, was different.

Coal met him even before he met Lyla. He was some... thing that he never saw before, he was indeed of another specie but Coal never saw them in the woods.

He walked in two foot just like Lyla but at the same time he was also very, very different from her. He was bigger, taller and he was super intelligent, he can make many wonderful things out of wood and he also had something very fearful that can make things turn black and gray. But even so, it was not his most special feature.

Coal could never said anything like Snowman said, no matter how hard he tried.

To Coal, it was very strange. He could understand most of what other animals said or could even speak a little back to them.

But when he was with Snowman, communication was seemed to be very foreign for him.

Coal met him when he was still a 6 years old kid, when his parent had just left him a few months before.

In the winter, not only did he have to find his own food but also have to find a way to do everything himself when he was still too young had worn him out.

He only ate a little and was too tired to go out to find food, so it was no wonder why he was so impatient.

Back then he didn't know why there was a big wooden cave near where he lived, and it was strangely big with its height even higher than a tree and looked very warm inside.

He thought that it would be his perfect hide because for some reason no others animals walked near it.

And he was just too curious to ignore it, so he wanted to try to explore it. Hoped that there would be some food inside.

But he was also a little bit afraid of it. It looked very big...