Snippet #2412215

The forest was silent, almost peaceful with the white snow glistering in the moonlight and some of the forest inhabitants peacefully grazing. A group of birds took flight, SWOOSH, and two birds fell in the snow with a loud thud as their dead bodies hit the snow.

"Dammit I only got two." cursed Lauren as she approached the bodies of her prey. "Well, two will have to be enough, I should get back to camp." she thought, so she withdrew the arrows from the two bodies and added them to her quiver, now she only had 8, since she missed one bird, and now was not the time to go looking for a stray arrow. As she started going back to camp she realized that in her hunt she had already made some sort of a circle around the camp, it shouldn't hurt to complete it. So Lauren continued her lap and eventually found the tracks that her group had made, but something was off.

"Something is following us." Lauren whispered, then she started to panic, what if "it" had already attacked the group? What if it had something to do with the crystal that the mage had received that Ark was talking about? Lauren decided she had been away from her friends long enough, she needed to help them. So she started following the extra track, from the snow impressions it was something with feet or boots, but it was hard to tell from the melted snow it weighted about 80 kg and was traveling at medium speed, probably the same as her group, but she could be wrong, some creatures can make very convincing fake tracks.

She was walking slowly, but very silently, she learned that when hunting wolves, so she could be so silent that a wolf wouldn't hear her, the problem was that wolves don't leave feet like marks on the snow. When she noticed a shadowy figure, she hid inside a bush. Lauren didn't knew if the thing was dangerous or not, but it was preferable to be safe than sorry, so she started getting an arrow ready, very slowly.