The first thing he wanted, was to head for the grass by the river. After he’d pissed on every bush, rock and pole there, he scratched off three time... and was ready for his run.The sun was coming up and the air was warm, there was a slight breeze and it felt good to get out and run in ‘our’ park again.We made our way around the jogging path once and came back to the wide grassy slope where the dogs can run and exercise. This is where I take his leash off and let him go.I was sitting on the. “Uh, it wasn’t for teaching me,” he added when he saw her shudder, looking up at him in horror. “I had just come of age. I kept her here most of the time. We didn’t have the chance to get far in our lessons before she was,” he sucked in a breath before finishing in a rush, “selected for the ambassador.”Shaking his head, he strode over to a table that had several unfinished paintings strewn across it. He picked one up and eyed it thoughtfully. “Ah, I believe I was making something from the. The same pastor who helped me get the job helped Derrick get his. “What’s it like here,” I asked Derrick after he showed me around all the niches and crevices of our new place and we had talked enough to get to know each other a bit. I liked the guy. “Well, when I first got here, I was coming off a lot of trouble and bad luck. It was hard at first to tow the line and I got a lot of spankings. But, I been here four years and now I settled in a bit.” “What were the spankings like?” I asked. . Horrible pain shoots through her body as the spikes on the animals body go deeply into her leg. This cant be a dream I feel pain, she thinks. The man that fired the arrow comes out of the woods and throws his bow aside. She sees him flick his wrist in a "shoo" sort of gesture and the creature flies off her as if launched by a cannon. Blood spurts from her leg as the spikes are removed and she screams in pain. He kneels down beside her. He runs his finger tips over the wounds and a warm.