Unwanted dreams
Malice was stalking a prey animal, an elum, intent on catching it for dinner. There was a faint giggle from nearby and the elum bolted.
"Now look at what you did." Malice said, "you scared away my dinner..."
"Sorry." a female voice said with another giggle as a dark green female slig, the one that had escaped him twice, climbed down the tree next to him and padded over. "I don' know why I laughed."
"Its ok..there are more where that came from..." Malice said with a mild chuckle. The slig looked up at him with those purple eyes and smiled happily, then touched his snout with hers....
Malice woke up with a start.
What the f*ck was up with that!? he thought, disgusted. Why is that wretch in my dream and why am I being nice to her!?
He shook his head, confused and touched his snout where the slig had touched it in the dream. For a brief moment, he remembered what it felt like...a warm comforting feeling, completely different from what he was used to feeling. He didn't like it.
He shook himself violently, shaking the feeling away.
No no NO! he thought, furious, I am NOT going soft! I won't allow it!
Determined to prove it to himself, he got up and slipped out of the cave he had been sleeping in, to see who he could kill tonight....
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