A quick observation told Neidr that this creature was a Northern Paksi. This dark and thick haired creature was a mammal with a sprawled gate. Its large claws face outwards and on its face was a long yellow and black beak lined with interlocking thin and sharp teeth. The front of this creature was wider than it's back. This was a slow lumbering beast that, strangely enough, used its wide palm to push itself up trees and eat their smaller branches. A herbivore.

Many people in this world thought that its mouth was designed as a cruel prank the Goddess of Death and Jealously, Asla played on her sister the Goddess of Life and Creation, Alsa. A herbivore with such sharp teeth and beak eats something as hard to chew as tree branches.

Paksis' ended up breaking off branches with their beaks and crushing them with their huge front paws before eating it piece by piece. It ended up only using those teeth for fighting, and fight they did. These creatures were actually very territorial.

Neidr was sweating nervously as this 300 pound creature poked and prodded him with its two-foot-long beak. He wasn't particularly ready for fight or flight, so he chose option three. Don't move. Five minutes of this creature poking him and circling. When he finally felt it was about to leave, it bit into his shoulder. Its teeth pierced shallowly into his flesh, but it started to tear as it began to drag him deeper into the forest.

'What the fuck! You eat plants, I'm not a fucking log!' Playing dead was no longer a reasonable strategy. Neidr had to think of a way to get out of this situation and quick. He didn't quite know what the creature wanted with him, but he didn't want to find out. It dragged him across rocks and roots, and its teeth kept tearing his flesh. Neidr let his hands drag along the ground and hoped and prayed.

Soon enough, he felt a stick laying on the ground. Neidr thanked his lucky stars and grabbed it as best he could. Luckily, he wasn't being dragged particularly fast, so he could easily get ahold of it. However, this didn't stop Neidr from cursing himself in his mind.

This plan relied alot on luck, and considering it might save his life, that didn't exactly make him feel good. Neidr didn't wait long. He did his best to judge where its eyes would be. He then thrust that stick backwards as hard as he could. As soon as he felt the reverberation in the stick, he knew he had missed. The Paksi dug its teeth deep into his flesh, causing the young man to scream. It started thrashing him from side to side, tearing his flesh more and more.

He held on, though. He held onto that stick for dear life and jabbed wildly at the paksi's eye whenever he could. Six, seven, eight, each missed strike tore at his psyche. After hitting the hard surface of the creature's beak so many times, he finally felt a lack of resistance. The stick pierced into the creature's eye, but Neidr wasn't done. He forced the stick all the way in until he felt the warm blood and gelatinous feeling of the creature's crushed eye on his hand.

The Paksi then flung him six feet away, and he crashed into a nearby tree. The Paksi issued a gut-wrenching screech of pain and shook its head rapidly. Neidr lips raised up in a smirk watching the creature wallow in pain. However, his eyes soon constricted and he slapped himself hard. His smile straightened, but the loud resounding sound refocused the Paksi's attention onto Neidr. Neidr could only curse his own rotten head. He painstakingly pushed himself up off the tree as the Paksi began to charge at him.

Neidr was freaking out. He couldn't quite decide what to do. It didn't help that this Paksi was putting him on a timer, and a pretty short one at that. He didn't really have time to climb a tree, and even if he did, he didn't know if he could. Plus he didn't have a weapon on him, how could he fight? Running also didn't seem to be an option. He wasn't very athletic, and he was dead tired. This thing would catch up with if not outrun him entirely.

Neidr was starting to spiral into depression, this Paksi looked pissed. It wasn't likely he'd live long if it got ahold of him. Suddenly Neidr had an idea. A very stupid idea, but an idea all the same. He broke off a branch from the tree and just as the Paksi raised its huge claws to slash him to pieces, he rolled behind the tree. The Paksi's claw gouged a hole in the tree, but chased straight after Neidr. Neidr ran around the tree to get to the back of the Paksi. The Paksi might be faster than him, but a quadrupedal creature with sprawled legs wasn't the best at turning corners at high speed.

Neidr used the tree to rush behind the Paksi and jump on it's back as it followed straight behind him. He slammed the new stick into the creature's other eye and quickly grabbed huge tufts of fur on the creature's back as it started to screech and flail about wildly. It took all Neidr had to hold on, but he did, for about ten minutes.

The Paksi soon started to roll. Not wanting to be crushed under the body of a 300 pound creature, Neidr leaped off in the other direction. He jumped to his feet just as the Paksi did the same. Then there was utter silence. The Paksi's flappy ears stood up for the first time since Neidr had seen this damn thing. It started listening intently, and sniffing subtly, trying to find him. Neidr did his best not to make a sound, but if the Paksi sniffed him out, how much would that really help?