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:: By Jennifer Vromant			   ::
:: jen_vromant@yahoo.com		   ::
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Spoof - Chapter 06

Spoof followed the trail slowly.  It led higher into the mountains, just to lead back down into a valley.  A valley where humans lived.  Spoof sat on the peak of the mountain pass, debating wether or not he should go down into the valley and around the city to the mountains on the other side.

The sun hadn't yet reached its zenith, and Spoof was already hungry.  He quickly followed the trail of a herd of mountain goats, picked off one of the strays, and returned to the pass with the goat between his jaws.  Once he had finished the goat, he suddenly smelled horses approaching.  And with the horses, he smelled humans.  His delicate ears picked up the sound of horses' hooves heavy with burden, and the sound of many boots on the ground.

Images flashed before his mind.  He saw long forgotten magic users casting spells.  He saw his mother falling silently to the ground.  He saw the pain and rage in his father's eyes.  He saw the humans turn to him, his father lying dead next to his mother.  He saw the hunger in their eyes.  The hunger to kill.  The hunger to destroy.

He shook his head to dispell himself of the images.  He tried to think of something else, something good and nice and funny.  In his mind's eye, he saw Kynder crouch before trying to pounce a rabbit, her rear end sticking up.  He saw her lunge at the rabbit, and he saw it happily dance away and into its hole.

As he sat on the pass, he grew restless, and a childhood fear cam over him.  He quickly hid behind a large boulder not too far away.  He moved around until he found a position where he could observe without being seen.  And then he watched.