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Ryan:

I had been hunting with my father, but I told him I wanted to go alone. Like usual, he let me. How else was I supposed to learn real skills? I had spied a huge deer and wanted it as my own. My backpack was empty today since I hadn't gone after anything yet.

I followed the deer silently. I was the only one in my family who could be so silent, normally people could sense my presence at all. The deer stopped momentarily, and I followed. I was scared for a moment he had heard me when an arrow hit the deer square in the chest. What!?

There was a boy that looked to be my age hanging out in a tree. He had a bow in hand and seemed to be amused with his prize. He pulled out a chuck on meat from his bag, took and bie,and made his way down to the ground.

He didn't even bother to get the deer. I noticed as he was walking away that his entirebackpack was already filled to the brim with meat. Did he really just shoot this deer forno reason? How did he get ahold of so much meat!?

I followed him a little ways silently. I wonder if he even cooked that leg he's eating. Finally, I couldn't bare it anymore. I stepped out from the behind the tree I was atand called to him,"Are you really just going to leave that deer back there?" He stopped in his tracks and turned around. He seemed to be a little suprised. But I was suprised myself, who just leaves a deer that big?

It seems that was the wrong thing to say because the boy seemed to get even madder. The took steps toward me until he was no more than 3 feet away. I could feel myself start to shake. This guy was seriously scary. "What do you want? Some meat, a taste of your own blood. Cough it up!" he spit.

I was unsure how to react. Certainly pretending to be tough wasn't going to flow with this guy. But he didn't seem like a guy that would be polite and reasonable. I decided maybe I should just change the subject. I took a stab at it. "How'd you get that much meat?"

He seemed a little taken aback by my random question, and I couldn't tell if he was angry or suprised or something else. He just continued to glare.