“Come quick Meric, I think I saw an antelope herd this way.” Ezam darted forward smiling with the grin of a fabled laughing hyena. “Hurry up you poker, by the time you get to where I am I’ll have been long gone.” “Always joking, never serious about anything,” Meric thought. “You do realize that we’re not even supposed to be out here right now don’t you? If we get caught you know exactly what’ll happen!” “No I don’t you twit and neither do,” Ezam said not missing a step, “or did you forget that no one has gone hunting in centuries.” “That’s exactly my point Ezam, not a single person has hunted anything in this village in years. We all know the stories of the Angels keeping all life safe and not allowing any harm to befall a single living creature. Now here I am risking my life so you can tempt our fates.” Ezam stopped so quickly that Meric almost ran right into him. For a moment young Meric thought that he may have broken through to his younger sibling and that they would both turn around and leave. That was, until Meric saw the look in Ezam’s eyes. “If that’s so,” spoke Ezam in a very ominous tone, “then I doubt they’d allow me to kill say…that beetle crawling towards us.” Before Meric could turn to see what his brother was talking about, he heard the squish and crunching of what was sure to be a now deceased bolvic beetle. “See, it’s dead and I’m still here. Now come on they’re almost to the entrance of Halen forest.” “You’ll kill harmless deer’s but you won’t cross into the sacred forest? My brother I fear I will never understand you.”
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