The forest seemed to come alive around him.The forest seemed to come alive around him. He'd been told that the only reason anything ever happened on a walk to the Great Hall was part of a test, and he wondered what he was being tested for right now. He thought back to his conversation with Skii yesterday about Pamthreats and their smaller-sized cousins, the Pardalet. Was that was this was about? Shaking his head, Garth rose from the stream and walked on. He knew that the Great Hall didn't intend to kill him. He felt that, although he couldn't for the sake of him say why. He walked on. The sky grew dark, then alight again. "What the?" He looked up, not seeing a cloud in the sky, and then the darkness swept over him again, and it was light. "First flash?" "That's what it looked like." Garth turned around to see a slim, black Felinzi approaching him. "Hi there. You Garth?" Garth nodded. "Who are you?" "Call me Pat," the figure said. Garth had trouble discerning if the Felinzi was male or female; the voice seemed masculine, as did the body mostly, but there were still elements to him that seemed decidedly feminine. He decided, finally, that Pat was male. "Where have you been all day?" Garth asked. "Catching up to you, silly. You were walking like a horde of Pamthreats were chasing you. I've been jogging at some points. |