King of Wolves: A Little Red Riding retelling (Kingdom of Fairytales Red Riding Hood Book 1) by J.A. Armitage & B. Kristin McMichael

Author:J.A. Armitage & B. Kristin McMichael [Armitage, J.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Enchanted Quill Press
Published: 2020-02-25T22:00:00+00:00

1st March

Nikkan and I left at first light to make our run to the wolf village. Micco had taken most of the day to recover the day before with us constantly feeding him. He’d been hungrier than he looked. All of the non-sick wolves were slowly starving, and that played a role in his recovery taking longer than anyone wanted. I was a bit worried when he was headed back after such a brutal fight, but he looked so much better. We had a short afternoon to catch as much as we could for food to bring with us to the village.

By the time we approached the wolf village, I could tell everyone was already in full swing on making the fence. I could hear the noise of workers long before we made it close enough to see anything. Nikkan had run most of the way as a wolf and now had to transform back to work.

“I really don’t know how you wear these things day after day,” Nikkan complained about his pants. That was all he was going to put on. It didn’t matter that it was barely warm enough to go without a winter coat; he was just in a pair of pants with no shirt or shoes.

“I don’t know how you go naked day after day,” I answered back.

“Ewe man, you didn’t need to put thoughts of you going naked in my mind,” Nikkan answered as we approached the village. “Fine. We’re even.”

I laughed. I hadn’t intended that when I said it, but I got how he took it that way.

People were everywhere as we came closer, but no one paid us any mind. They continued on working. Men, women, and even the children that stayed behind were doing something. Near the edge, Micco talked to a group of men. He turned as he sensed our approach.

“Good. You made it,” he called to us.

“Ready to work.” I held my hand up as a gesture of greeting to the wolves with Micco. Most nodded or grunted in return as they spread out in different directions. I handed our small kills to one of them and turned back to Micco.

“Nikkan, we could use your strength cutting trees,” Micco waved for Nikkan to follow one of the guys as they left. Nikkan nodded and left me standing with the wolf leader.

Since I wasn’t a wolf, I didn’t exactly have the same super strength of the rest of the people in town, though my strength was stronger than a tree person. I was stronger than average, just nothing compared to a wolf. Cutting the trees down was going to take massive endurance on my part to keep up as they chopped quickly. I might be able to do a few, but I wouldn’t be able to keep pace with the wolves.

Nikkan always talked about being a wolf as something not to wish on anyone, but it was apparent, he loved being a wolf, and the perk of super strength and fast healing didn’t sound too bad either.

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