Chapter 45: They Came For Us In the Dead Of Night

I couldn't sleep properly after the human left. His emptiness haunted my nightmares for days. I was restless.

And I wasn't the only one.

The entire pack had an air of worry about it.

The human did not leave.

The scouts had followed him all the way to the edge of our lands. But he didn't cross it. He just set up camp there.

And every day since then, he would make the trek to our pack gates and meet with my father.

I don't know what it was he wanted but my father's response every day was “No”.

So the Hollow man left every day rejected.

The Hollow man. That's the name the children gave him after I told them what I saw.

They wouldn't follow me into the woods since that day, they stayed at home, buried in their parents arms, terrified they would cross paths with the human if they stepped outside.

But even the parents felt something was wrong with that human. They murmured daily about the man's request and if they should just kill him. Trying to find a justification for it not to be sense