We Hide From The Wolves

Shortly, after they climbed almost to the top of the tree, packs of wolves came approaching their area in large random quantities.

Vania's prediction is correct, the cave that Neman thought to be a hiding place was the first place the wolves checked.

Neman could only be silent when he saw the pack of wolves entering the cave. They both could have died if Vania didn't hold Neman to go there.

The wolves don't give up on small things like that, because they are very persistent mammals. They returned to find the whereabouts of Neman and Vania. After successfully combing one spot, they continued to move forward rapidly to check one by one the places they thought could be hiding places.

The tactics of the wolves are quite clever, they have groups that are constantly moving fast to run forward. Important groups and conscientious groups like Alpha have the task of examining things in more detail.

The situation is getting tenser, Neman's eyes keep looking at the snowy underground which is now not as smooth as it used to be because of the footprints of a pack of wolves that clap everywhere.

If Neman had been careless by wanting to fight the pack of wolves, he would have already been cut into a flesh, not going to last a few minutes with his current strength.

The pack of wolves that were close to Neman and Vania hideout is now less and less, other wolves had rushed forward. Neman keep watching the huge pack of wolves who running away forward. Now, only a few important wolves remained who carefully inspected the area Neman and Vania were hiding.

Vania was very scared, her heart was beating fast, she didn't even dare to look at the pack of wolves that were looking for them, Vania covered her eyes with her both hands. Vania could only hear the sound of the stomping of the wolves running around which sounded thunderous.

CRACK!

Neman broke a nearby tree branch, producing a sound that caught the attention of one of the wolves who walking around.

"Shh," Vania whistled softly, indicating that she was calling for Neman. "What are you doing?"

"Shut up, I've seen this method on TV, just see."

The black wolf who on searching heard that voice, it was the wolf that had been defeated by Neman earlier. His revenge instinct grew stronger.

The wolf felt strange about the big tree behind him. He was several tens of meters not far from the Neman tree and Vania was hiding. Feeling something wrong, the wolf trying to guess that the sound of the twig breaking came from the tree that Neman and Vania climbed, the wolf approached with a slower and more alert movement.

The pine trees that are far apart make room for the moon to illuminate the snowy place.

While walking closer to the tree where Neman and Vania were hiding, his footsteps stopped when he saw faint footprints.

RRRrrr!!!

The black wolf growled, his teeth quivered in annoyance, the vengeance in him was burning. The black wolf thought that Neman was still nearby. If he met Neman again this time, he made sure that Neman would become a skeleton.

Neman held tightly to the broken tree branch he had just broken, the length of the broken tree branch was approximately 25 cm(centimeter). Neman then threw the branch to the opposite tree.

His throw hit the opposite tree he was aiming for. The broken wooden branches that were thrown hit a few leaves before hitting the tree trunk. The clash of broken wooden branches being thrown into the tree produced a rumbling sound of bushes which distracted the black wolf from the tree that Neman and Vania had climbed. After the flung of broken wooden branches hit the trunk of the opposite tree, the branch stopped, falling onto a flat tree trunk.

The black wolf immediately rushed to the tree that made the bush noise earlier to check. The black wolf was already in front of the tree trunk, he then looked up to make sure there was an air presence or not on the tree. After a few seconds of staring at the tree seriously, he only saw a tree that did look normal as it should.

After he thought that Neman and Vania weren't here, the wolf left running towards the other group running. Step by step he had walked, the four legs of the black wolf moved away from the tree that Neman and Vania climbed. His footprints smacked into the snow, as clearly visible as any other wolf's.

The black wolf began to move away, the farther it moved, the faster the speed of movement it set.

Vania opened her eyes slightly, looking at the black wolf that had gone away from them. After the wolves were far enough from their hiding place, Neman stood up.

Neman smiled as he pursed his lips upwards, then he gently but quickly rubbing the tip of his nose once to the side with his right hand.

Vania put on a sour face, she was amused when she saw Neman put on his arrogant expression.

"Looks like there aren't any dogs anymore." Neman scanned the area from above once more to see if they were safe. "Come on down, I'll cramp if I'm here too long."

Vania nodded.

Neman took the shoes he had placed between the buttons of his shirt, and threw them down. Neman went down one stem level first so he could help Vania go down, Neman knew that Vania still felt pain in her leg. After Neman descends to the rootstock, Neman helps Vania down, they keep doing that until they reach the bottom.

The touch of the feet felt colder when they stepped on the snowy ground even though they were still covered by socks.

After the two of them reached the bottom, Vania untied her two legs which she tied in each of her arms. Vania put on her shoes, then she tied her shoelaces.

Neman picked up each of his shoes which were lying under the snowy ground. Just like Vania, Neman also tied his shoes, he couldn't stand stepping on the cold snowy ground.

After finishing putting on her shoes, Vania walked in the previous direction opposite to the direction the wolves were running from. Vania is still walking with a limp because her leg still hurts, the pain lessens with time.

After Neman finished tying his shoes, Neman walked over to Vania, then he walked next to Vania. "Hey, where are you going?"

Vania didn't respond to Neman's question, she continued to walk anxiously.

Neman holding wrist Vania forcefully. "Hey! Answer me!"

"Ahh, let go first."

Neman released his grip after Vania answered.

"You're really rude." Vania pouted, her forehead furrowed down. "I'm going to where we fell before."

"What do you mean?"

"I want to go home."

"What do you mean by go home, huh? We don't even know what is this place. We just fell from a high cliff, remember?"

Vania continued walking without answering Neman's question.

"Heishh," Neman sighed, "what's wrong with this person."