Chapter 4

"ROARRRrr!"

A blood-coated 3m tall black wolf aguishly roared out with its last breath. It looked angrily at the bigger sized equally as bloody grey lynx in front of him before falling over and dying. The lynx looked haughtily at the dead wolf, before proceeding to eat its flesh for nourishment.

Noel, having finished watching the fight, quickly fled from the place before the lynx noticed his presence. He was just trying to explore the forest to get to know more about it. He hadn't seen any animals after exploring for some time which he found weird but had thought that it was because he wasn't deep enough into the forest to find any.

Just as he was thinking of stopping and going back to rest, he saw a raven circle above his head, as if trying to get his attention. When he saw it, he felt that it was familiar before remembering that it might be the raven from yesterday night.

When he noticed the raven, the raven flew down towards him before cawing and flying North. Noel ran after it as he had a feeling that the raven wanted him to follow it, though he didn't know for what reason.

After following the raven for some time, he heard growls coming from the direction the raven was going to. Due to his curiosity, Noel began to run faster in that direction, which led him to the fight between the black wolf and the grey lynx. He didn't know why the raven wanted him to see that, but he stayed and watched the fight with the raven resting on his right shoulder.

Leaving the area, Noel had the raven hop off his shoulder and onto his arm before questioning,"Do you understand me?" The raven cocked its head to the right, as if asking what he was talking about. Noel sighed and laughed at his sanity at asking that question. How could an animal even be able to understand a human? Seeing as how the raven had come to him twice already in the span of two days, Noel decided to keep it as his pet, naming it Muninn.

"Come on Muninn, let's go back." Noel patted Muninn before tracing back to his resting place where it's safer and planned to take time the next day to train Muninn and explore the forest further.