Prologue
The wind whistled through the grasses of the meadow as the rabbits played with the fluttering butterflies. Deer leaped hither and yon and birds chirped with glee in the April sunshine. A lizard sunned himself on a rock nearby of pair of squirrels dancing a fine jig. The song of the meadow was melodious and bright and all the creatures frolicked during the beautiful morning.
But suddenly everything changed.
The animals stopped. A commotion came from just beyond the swell of earth. Three boys sitting on ponies were engaged in an angry debate. The animals needed no prompting to find shelter from certain danger. They smelled the palpable tension in the air and scurried away before the outcome could be determined.
Then everything was still. The breeze that had been so prominent earlier diminished to little more than a whisper. Even the boys sat silent.
Suddenly one of them pulled out a gun and the horses pranced nervously.
“Don’t do this,” the tallest boy said. “Just put the gun away and we can work this out.”
“It will never be resolved until this coward is padded beneath six feet of dirt!” another one yelled.
“Just leave it alone. I’ll go home, but I won’t go as your trophy,” commanded the third.
“Oh, you’ll go home alright. And I’ll be sending you there,” sneered the second one before he cocked the pistol. The air rang with the sound of the explosion as the tall boy leapt off his horse in front of his friend. The boy fell motionless to the ground leaving the two quarrelling boys astride their horses staring down at him.
“NO!!!”
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