The Fifth Elephant

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Places to buy food were getting scarce. However carefully Carrot knocked at the door of some isolated farmstead, he’d end up having to talk to people who were hiding under the bed. People here were not used to the idea of muscular men with swords who were actually anxious to buy things.In the end it generally worked out quicker to walk in, go through the contents of the pantry, and leave some money on the table for when the people came up out of the cellar.It had been two days since the last cottage, and there was so little there that Carrot, to Gaspode’s disgust, had just left some money.The forest thickened. Alder became pine. There were snow showers every night. The stars were pinpoints of frost.And, colder and harder, rising with the sunset, was the howl.It went up on every side, a great mournful ululation across the freezing forests.“They’re so close I can smell ’em,” said Gaspode. “They’ve been shadowing us for days.”“There has never been an authenticated case of an unprovoked w...olf attacking an adult human being,”MoreLess
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