CHAPTER #4

Next morning, Jasper woke up to a terrible pain in her throat and then she realized how thirsty she was! She hadn't drank anything since her escape from Thunder (remember the wolf alpha named Thunder?). She remembered her father and mother would take her down to the river to get a drink and catch fish. She remembered where it was....she thought. She walked toward the direction her and her parents did. And then she remembered the land marks she had come across. First was the up-rooted tree, and then the tree covered in reishi (the mushroom. It's pronounced ray-shee), and then there was the mossy rock. She walked until she saw the up-rooted tree, and then turned right. Then finally she saw the tree covered in reishi, luckily there were some young reishies that still had a white margin (young reishi that still have a white margin can be eaten, or used for medicinal purposes). She bit off a piece of the white margin and ate it. It wasn't the best thing in the world, but it was okay tasting. She kept walking and walking, and then ran. She was running very fast and couldn't stop herself when she came to the mossy rock! Her head hit first and then she fell over backwards. Luckily the moss was very thick, and protected her from damaging her skull and getting a concussion. Her head still hurt, but not that much. She sat down  for a bit. Then she got up and kept walking until she got to the river. Slowly, she stepped into the water and drank, and drank, and drank. She drank until she felt as if she would burst! Then she looked at her reflection in the water. She looked bigger and...older. Then she saw a fish. She swiped at it with her paw like her mother did, but just ended up splashing herself. She growled at her reflection and splashed it. She got out of the water and walked up stream. And then she got tired. She laid down and fell asleep in no time.