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Nearby in the Jungle

The young hunter watched as the tall pale skinned man walked away with the shaggy beast. The strange pale man wore a lower garment similar to the hunter’s, but also strange garments on his upper body.

Could this man have come from the same place as the Great Konnal? The man’s skin was pale as the Konnal’s was said to be and there was much hair on the man’s face, as the people of the Konnal were said to have.

The hunter was disappointed that the shaggy beast he had been tracking would now escape his arrows, but this was so much more fascinating. The shaggy beast had actually faced down the great jaguar.

And the pale man was talking with the beast, as if he were a friend. Did this man have the magic to talk with animals, or was this beast some strange demonic familiar?

This was indeed a strange day for wondrous things. First the great roaring bird that trailed smoke passed overhead and now this pale man and his shaggy beast appear in the jungle.

Whatever was going on, the young hunter would follow this strange man and his shaggy beast.

Oh, the stories he would be able to tell the others around the night fire.