"Ok, so apparently... Mother and Life are the only two beings made by Fate and they are really powerful.

How much you ask?

Like the most powerful of the powers that are full of power!

You already knew that?

Well... Did you know that every single of their actions have consequences?

Everyones actions have consequences you say? Well, you are right! But as Mother's daughter apparently my actions have pretty big consequences too!

Innocently writing about things could be dangerous... If things are already known there is no problem... But if they are made to stay hidden...

Well to unearth them there might be prices to pay...

Apparently... Ezili Laume Eingana Nerthus Auril, the faery of water my friend is one hyperactive faery.

Only almost no one knows what she's doing!"

-Bee May, the faery of knowledge

"Did you know that secrets are really secrets if only ONE knows them?"

"Mira, I'm bored!"

"At your age you should have at least two more Demonic Hearts. Do you think I'm not bored? I'm stuck here, same as you."

Sidon, Fianna and most of the villagers left eastward 'to take a walk', the coldstone mines as their ultimate destination. Little Wolf and Mira could not go with them. For Little Wolf this was really hard, it was the first time in his life that his parents left him alone. He was left behind in the past but his parents were always at worst one day away from him, he could still smell them if he focused hard enough. Now they were leaving farther and farther away and he was about to leave in the opposite direction. He had an official hunter mission too! Let the villagers that left the village know that they were back and that the village would be back too, even better than before! It should be pretty easy too, leave westward and follow the familiar smells to find the villagers, reunite with Annabelle and the others in the capital and then get back.

The day his parents left he got called by some soldier, Thaddeus wanted to talk with him. He did not know any Thaddeus but his mother, Fianna, told him to not disobey the adults, unless they were bad people. Actually, he was an adult too now! Who should obey who? He was a little confused but still followed the soldier. He was brought to the study of Thaddeus, Little Wolf knew this room already, inside he found Todd, the assistant and a girl, he heard people call her princess. That meant that the assistant is called Thaddeus right? Thaddeus is a name for males not females... But if Todd gave orders why was the study of Thaddeus? That was confusing but he was an adult now, he will learn with time, like everything else he faced in the past, Little Wolf was a fast learner and he was proud of it!

Todd told him that a military caravan should arrive at the fort in a little. It would bring supplies needed to keep the fort going, it would bring some soldiers as escorts too. Another caravan would depart the day after, the soldiers that left for some mandatory rotatory rest would march with it to the capital. Inside the carts there would be letters for the families of the soldiers that stayed in the fort and the bodies of the men and women that lost their life in the fort, they had to let the families know how they were doing and let the loved ones bury the deceased. Todd asked if Mira and he could join the caravan to the capital and he accepted, Little Wolf was always ready to help!

He left the room immediatly after agreeing, left the fort and got on top of a hardwood tree. He could see so far away like this! And he did not see any caravan, they were at least five to seven moons late! He could see clearly really far and they weren't on the road! Maybe they were attacked by bandits!

"What are you doing up here?"

"Oh, hi Mira! I'm waiting for the caravan to arrive so we can leave."

"What caravan?"

So Little Wolf had to explain to Mira what they were tasked with and he misunderstood! The caravan will arrive with soldiers and letters, then they would wait for the next day so that the soldiers could write answers. Only THEN they would be ready to leave, and they would walk! It will take ages to move anywhere like that! He could not even train or move too much or Mira would scold him, apparently Mira was a really good teacher or he was a really good student or both. The being that splashed water at her from time to time was satisfied with her performance but then it wanted Mira to teach him some super hard combat moves and he really tried but his Demonic Hearts could not follow his comands, it was really impossible! So he had to grow more Demonic Hearts and try again! Mira asked to leave and then come back when he was ready to learn but was refused. She was cranky from that day.

"I'm leaving for a while. Do. Not. Waste. Energy!"

Mira left towards the forest, she was searching for the pond. Little Wolf knew it was useless, he tried to find it too in the past but he knew better now. One does not just find the pond, when one is lost the pond will find you! It does not make much sense but, every time he wanted to go to the pond he just had to get lost in the forest and he would end up in the meadow that surrounded the pond. Getting lost with his senses it's not easy!

"Hey! You are the son of Mr. Antlers and Milady Fianna? You really look like a beautiful girl!"

A wild third princess appeared near the branch that Little Wolf used as a perch to look for the caravan. He remembered to look down and use his hair to cover his eyes, even if he suppressed his White Stalker form and tried to look as human as possible his eyes spook the soldiers every time he looked at them.

"Hi, Fianna is my mother but I do not know anyone called Antlers and I did not know that Fianna was a Milady, I tought she was Mother or Caretaker. My father is Sidon, the First Hunter! I am a man! I look like a man! I do not look like a boy and for sure not like a girl! You look more like a beautiful girl!"

Little Wolf did his best to answer as fast as the third princess asked, she was wrong in some things and it was his responsability to make sure she got them right.

"Oh," she blushed a little, "do not think you can buy this Princess with praises and Sidon is Mr. Antlers!"

"No, it can't be. Sidon is Sidon and your Mr. Antlers is Mr. Antlers."

"Sure... Uncle Thadd told me that speaking with you would be interesting and he was right!" She smiled.

"Well, I do not know your uncle but I am interesting!"

"Right! You are a hunter and a crafter right? The soldiers were speaking about a bow you made in two days time and that it was impossible to fire with!"

"The bow I made for mother? The hardwood is really good for strong bows, the problems are the tendons for the strings. The moss boar has pretty strong tendons so I made a strong bow for Fianna. And it's not impossible to fire it! Alfonse can nock an arrow and almost fully draw the bow! My entire family can draw that bow and Mira almost broke it! You have the sword I made for father when I was a child, you should be able to draw that bow too!"

Phrillia gasped, she unleashed her hardwood greatsword and looked at it. She had it for years, it was a gift from her cousin, the Battle Queen herself. One of her escorts, a bastard son of a noble who awakened the blood of Arthus was so strong that broke any iron weapon the army gave him, steel would deform and break in the middle of the fight instead of the start, usually he ended up fighting bare handed or just using and breaking whichever weapon he could put his big meaty hands on. The Battle Queen gifted every one of her escorts a high quality weapon, so that they could not hold back and use their strenght at the best of their abilities. This particular escort is really big and strong, his weapon? A tree trunk with a handle! Obviously the crude mace is made from hardwood. His powerful body and the brutality demonstrated by the apparently simple weapon made the young Phrillia dream the day she could emulate him.

The hardwood greatsword was made by a single piece of hardwood, it was cut in that form, the craftmanship was poor but the durability and the difficulty of working with hardwood made the weapon unique. After so many years it was still as good as the day she received it, it did have some scratches from when she trained with her cousin or her escords and their weapons, even so they were superficial at worst.

"You made this?"

"Yes, I saw a caravan guard with a greatsword when I was a kid and I tought it was the coolest thing ever! And my father, the coolest man even should have a greatsword too! We did not have metal or well... I do not know how to work with metal... But I can work with hardwood! So I made a big sword for a big man, longer hilt so he can put more strenght on the swing, larger blade so he can use it as a shield too! I know it's heavier this way but Father can handle it. I even put an handle on a side, it can work as an half guard or it can be used to move the greatsword around like a big shield! But it's hard to use it inside the forest, when the tree are packed tight togheter is hard to move with big weapons... And we use spears and arrow because we need to penetrate the strong hides of the animals that live here. A slashing weapon is a poor choice and my sword was more a crushing weapon. Father used it from time to time but it's a failed attempt of mine."

Little Wolf was really excited to talk about his crafting skills but then he saddened. He remembered how saddened he was that his 'useful' gift to his father was actually useless. He actually had to find a merchant that was interested in it and exchange it for food and cloth. His parents did not even notice that the sword was gone for all the Heat and Fianna noticed it was missing when it was almost time for the Snow!

"No! My Shword is not an useless weapon! I can have a shield and a sword in the same space! It's really useful! And when assassins came for me, it defended me really well, I even cut one in half with your 'crushing' weapon! Sure, it did poorly as a weapon when I fought Mr. Boar but it saved my life multiple times! What is a weapon if not a tool to protect yourself and who you care?"

The third princess really loved her hardwood greatsword and Little Wolf was happy that his work found someone that could appreciate it.

The sun was almost down, time did move faster while one is distracted. Mira came out of the forest and yelled at the two young guys that talked animately on top of a tree, they looked more like tail-less hair-less monkeys from the ground.

"Found the caravan! They were ambushed on the road, carts were destroyed and the remaining had broken axles. They used the carts as shields, they salvaged and repaired what they could but they were not holding well. I reinforced what they had. They will be here in five nights."