Raul's Point of View
I had never before encountered the jealousy of the heart. I had seen it in others and didn't understand it. I wasn't prepared for such a devastating and humiliating feeling. For the feeling of red rage and cold dread at the same time. For the impression that my entire being was scattering into the tiniest particles, never to be assembled again.
Without the power to control my own body, I surrendered leadership to Rufus. He rushed into the forest as into a refuge.
The scent of damp earth and young ferns greeted us. Sunlight broke through the newly greened canopy in scattered shafts. Small creatures fled before Rufus's passage with faint rustles, movements faster than the eye could follow. Distance itself seemed the only goal, branches cracking under his paws, the pa
