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Chapter 18 by simmaster simmaster

Can you keep it up?

Of course not.

You suddenly hear a noise from the cave entrance. Footsteps, and voices.

"Let's check this place out. Looks like a place where you'd find a werewolf," one voice says.

"I still don't get what a werewolf is doing here. Are you sure it's not just a rumor?" another one asks.

"Of course I'm not," the first voice replies. "A few noobs claim a werewolf killed them in this forest, that's all I know. Could very well be a rumor. But if it's not, there might be something special about it. Maybe it's got unique loot or something."

Damn it. Looks like you've drawn attention to yourself. Question is, whose attention? Are these heroes way out of your league or just slightly stronger, if at all, than the ones you've been killing? Either way, you're currently in your human form and you still have no clothes. All you have is your dagger. Your dagger and your wolf friends, which you doubt would be much of a threat to a pair of heroes.

You need a plan. And you need it now. NOW now. Let's see... You couldn't play the questgiver card, that's for sure. You're a naked guy sleeping in a cave with wolves, it would probably be obvious that you're the werewolf they're looking for even to people who don't know what a werewolf IS. You also don't know when nighttime would arrive. You had been resting in the cave for a while, but how long? Was it seconds away from dusk or was it noon? You couldn't rely on your werewolf form saving you this time. It would be great if that would be, but for now you'd have to assume that it wouldn't for the sake of your survival.

Maybe you could use the wolves as a diversion? Wake them up and send them to attack, and then sprint for the exit? But would you really want to do that to them? They had been friendlier than you could have hoped for and never once attacked you- Wait! Could that be it? Yes... Maybe...

You look at your dagger. It would hurt, that's for sure. But if you cut yourself in the right places and lied down in a believable pose, maybe you could pass off as a corpse. Maybe the heroes would then leave, not bothering to attack the wolves since they're all asleep. Or maybe not... But what other options did you have?

Should you go with that plan, or keep thinking?

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