After a bit, Fruit the bat flew by “Snow? What's wrong?” He asked curiously than saw her face. “A white claw!” she yelled. Fruit laughed “Your imagination!” Fruit grabbed her paw and tried to pull her out, only achieving about two centimeters. She shook her head but then sat up and walked out, “See, Snow, it’s just you dreaming, come on! I'll show you!” Fruit said with confidence and then flew into the thicket. Snow Pup crept in, seeing all her fur was gone. “See? It's just-” just then a high scream echoed through. ”I was wrong! I was wrong! I was wrong! Ruuuuuuuuunnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” he screeched and ran out. Snow Pup looked back and saw IT howling and running towards her. She yelped and ran faster. The monsters hot thick breath was getting closer and she yelped and ran out of the thicket. It stopped there and slicked back, growling and looking back, it's sun yellow eyes staring as in disappeared into the bush. She looked at Fruit, which had run straight into a tree, stuck by his nose “Well,at least' we ‘now its bad righ’?” He looked hopeful as Snow Pup pulled him out. He thanked her and then paused”hey stay here till your mother's back,ok?” She nods numbly he flew away to his pine tree, leaving Snow Pup staring at the thicket in which a monster had attacked her was, as she thought, “Is it waiting for me?” The yellow eyes haunted her and Her eyes widened and skittered to the trunk and this time, there was no bat that could stop her to stay there till her mother came there. ↜↝ Frost came back to the den to see her pup laying there, shaking in fear like a squirrel that couldn't hibernate. She walked over, ”Snow Pup, what's wrong?” When Snow Pup looked up, she looked like she was awake for the entire night she was gone “Was it the mound? I don't know what happened” she lied. Snow Pup shook her head and explained what happened during the day. She explained the monster, Fruit trying to show her that it didn't exist, all the way until it stared at her. Her mother's eyes, which were calm and warm, looked glazed and unresponsive. She looked again and said, “Mommy will not be here for the night, ok?” She didn't answer, but she walked out of the trunk as an aimless pup watched her mother walk away from her. The night seemed colder than normal. As she looked out, her mother’s former white coat was now darkened by the night, walking into the thicket, right into the dark. Snow Pup looked watched as her mother's shape disappeared and then sat down and looked nibbling at it. She looked again and then sighed The storm has begun
