An elvish child ran as fast as he could, grasping for breath as he was being chased by wolfs a mist a forest so dense that sunlight didn’t reach the ground.
With his eyes filled with fear and tears, he ran barely able to keep any distance between himself and the wolf thinking how he should have listened to his father and not have gone into the forest.
As the child ran through the forest, he threw sticks and slipped through dense vines to keep the wolf as bay.
Finally, tired of running he luckily came across a hollow log fallen to the ground and ran inside it while crying as the wolves tried to break the log open.
He yelled at the top of his lungs
“PLEASE SAVE ME, DADDY!!MAMA!UNCLE!!…………. I’LL BE A GOOD BOY ………. I’LL DO MY CHORES ……… I’LL LISTEN TO MAMA …………. PLEASE “
As the child was yelling, he heard whimpers from the outside and the wolf started to run off.
The child now relieved was suddenly overcome with fear once more as he heard a heavy tread which slowly got louder and louder until coming to a halt, not daring to look outside he curled himself up hoping whatever was there would just move on. The child was frozen stiff in fear as it felt a gaze upon him as tears dripped from his eyes, the tread continued now slowly fading into the distance.

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[Terran POV]

'well that happened'

he thought as moved away from the child he saved so that he would come out on his own and return home so that he could follow him from a distance.

'he might be lost though, that might be a problem '

as he moved far enough away the sound of the steps he was purposefully creating also ceased then he carefully climbed onto the trees and hid as best as he could and watched as the child continued to sob as he got out of the broken log and just sat on the ground.

'maybe I should go down and comfort him, no I have been too long without contact which can lead to problems especially if I get attached to him'

as he waited he thought of mana, magic, and all things fantasy that it could remember for the more he looked at the child the more he thought of him to be elf due to his green hair, pointy ears, and clear skin which remained cleaner than it should be given how he crawled through the dirt to get in and out of the log.

'I wonder what else is real and what is not, perhaps even the trees can come to life or communicate vast distances and I am already exposed'

slowly the child got up and started to go the way he came from. how the child could recognize the path I wondered then again perhaps it was due to heritage. I followed as silently as I could without breaking the line of sight thinking that perhaps the elves would hide behind illusions, as we moved further and further away I began to wonder how this child got so far away from his home or was lost.

as I followed further I saw a glint of something flash and caught an arrow that was coming right at me which I felt flew so fast that I felt it was more luck than ability that I succeeded. I just chose to keep the arrow and move away as quickly as I could without destroying anything as that will just create tracks to follow me by.

'how come I didn't sense them'

even though I was moving away at a decent pace I still felt bad given they were able to sense me before I could them perhaps they could use mana to sense me, I wonder how I would look to them should mana sense exist.

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[??? POV]

'what was that'

as I set aside my by bow and made haste to Lord Jura I couldn't help but wonder to what I had witnessed and grimaced at the thought of how to describe it when I had to make a report but first to make sure that my nephew was fine.

he looked a little rough but was mostly fine even if he fell asleep the moment he saw us and now the lord is glaring at me. I messed up

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[Jura POV]
"Now then tell me what you were thinking leaving the kid all alone or were you laughing at him as a wolf chased him"

as Jura interrogated his newest dumbass recruit he couldn't help but message his temple as he was told what had happened. this DUMBASS wanted to show off in the name of training and lead the kid into the forest gave him an enchanted necklace then told the kid to do a lap to the mountains to a KID.

damn it if his mana sense wasn't as good as it was I would have tossed him out right after beating the shit out of him
now what the fuck was it that he shot at, something between a null and a lost mage but with less mana than a damn squirrel that was the description he gave, now that is something for the mages to figure out cause I can't make heads or tails of it and that is ignoring the fact he SHOT at it without seeing it so we can't even send any of the normal scouts just my damn luck.

"um sir I was close by until the necklace broke and I lost him"

"2 rounds of basic"

as I walked away leaving this fuck to a miserable fate I was comforted by the grimace on his face even if I felt it was too little but it will have to do, I just need to give him border patrols to makeup for the rest.

*sigh*

the mages will be eager to look into this but will make my life filled with paperwork for the scouts with a decent mana sense and guards to follow them as go and look for whatever that was, what if it saved the kid and just escorting it back . . . an intelligent monster that was friendly.

"Perhaps I should make that bitch clean shit while in basic"