My paws thudded quickly and loudly on the ground and my eyes stung with unshed tears that Ii desperately wanted to unleash – but there was no time for weakness right now, I had a goal, a mission and I would do what I came to do, no matter what, but being in wolf form only made it worse; my eyes were much larger.
Before I had left, I had ensured that everyone was asleep.
Then, as the guards were changing shifts, I had escaped through the palace gates and ran, ran, ran – past the glistening lake, through the dense forest and then out past the vast expanse of fields, littered with dying flowers. I was, at first, surprised at how easily I had manged to flee the castle without being detected, but then I realised that I was a Royal Guard; I knew all the tricks of the trade and I knew how they
