New Fantasy writing/modelling comp

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A sudden violent shake wakes me from my slumber. I look up into the darkness and see a woman stood over me wearing a face of a person who had been awake for a long time. I look into her eyes for a minute before getting up from where I had been laid. I look around the darkened room and find the table that Teagan had been sat at while he was eating earlier in the night. I walk over to it and take a seat in one of the aged wooden chairs. I take out the pendant I had found earlier and turned it over in my hand, examining it.

When I feel the pendant grow warm, I put it away and get up from my seat. I walk outside and stand in the cool night breeze, looking up at the night sky but when I look down again, I see the moon's light reflecting in a nearby puddle. I run my fingers through my black locks, the same locks that my parents had, and I think about when things were simpler. Before Gnaabak, before Murbil, before Beargrim. Back before my parent's murder on the night of my 16th birthday. I lose the sense of my surroundings as I think about what would have happened if they had listened to my wishes instead. Undoubtedly, I would not be here right now.

A sudden sound of footsteps breaks me from my trance and I look over to see Gnaabak leaving the village. I wonder why he is leaving so late at night but I do not question it that much, I do not know him that well and this could just be a regular occurrence. I walk back inside and wake Seth for his night watch. He groans at my attempts to ask him to get up and I nudge him with my hand. He eventually wakes up enough for him to stand up and I lay down in the spot previously taken by him.

I wake up early the next morning, when most of my companions are still asleep and begin to pace the room, waiting for them to wake. Eventually, one by one, they all start to move from where they have fallen asleep and murmur about being tired. I just mutter to myself that this will not wait for anyone.

I have the pendant in my hand again when Ellawyn comes over, rubbing her eyes. She looks at it for a few minutes before asking if she can take a look at it. I hand it over, making sure to tell her that it is mine as I found it and I want it back when she is done with it. I walk outside and find Katia in the middle of a conversation with another Orc. I walk over to Katia's side and give her a confused look but she dismisses it.

" - three moons in the sky and darkness below. If you know what is good for you, be gone before it comes for you, too."

He leaves, his feet creating imprints in the dirt, and Katia walks back towards the cottage. I follow and join up with the rest of my companions. We make a decision to go back to Beargrim with our findings. While the rest are packing up their bags and making sure they don't leave a trace of our stay in the cottage, I walk outside for some breathing room as the cottage is small and a lot of my companions are quite tall when compared with myself.

My parents always said I had quite a temper for such a small man but I never realised, before this journey, that it was not just them calling me a teenager but it meant that I did not quite inherit my father's tall stature. I miss them more with every thought of them but that is all in the past, this is the present and more important to our journey.

As I look up from where my eyes had rested while I was thinking, I spot a figure walking into the forest and without a second thought I begin to walk towards the forest entrance. I have no idea who or what it could be but it could be the answer to what happened to Murbil. We know from a conversation that Darius had with a villager while on his night shift that Murbil and her family had been kidnapped. The information he had received was not very useful when it came to who kidnapped them but we were going to find out.

When I finally reached the forest there is no sign of the figure from before so I turn back and rejoin the group. Teagan walks over, his stomach is noticeably making noise but he looks me in the face.

"Where did you go? We thought you had wandered off and got lost."

"No, I did not wander off. There was a figure in the forest and I went to investigate."

"Why did you not wait for us to go with you? "

"Because, Teagan, it would have taken too long and there would have been less chance for us to catch them."

We set off on the journey back to Beargrim's house soon after my conversation with Teagan. The journey back was rough and there was at least one person complaining about how long it was but finally, after a days travel, we reached Beargrim's house. The place looked the same as when we last visited but I noted that the gate was closed this time. I pushed it open and my companions followed as I started to walk up the path to the door.

I knocked and Beargrim's rough voice told us to come in. I entered first followed by Safiya. Beargrim looked confused at our sudden arrival back. We tell him what we discovered in Wolfwater and he shakes his head, "Tis as I suspected then, The Providence has arisen once again."

"What?"

He does not explain but talks of how he has hidden his son somewhere out-of-the-way and offers us gold. We take it as it could come in useful later. He sets us the task of finding out who is causing all of this and we accept knowing there is possible danger ahead.