The Wolf's Den

Path 1: Adrieve, Chapter 1

        The hallway was wide when they stepped into the building, the building seemingly a brothel of interesting characters. There was Red, the child with the red hood, and seven brothers, young in age and huddled into each other with fright. Passing them, there were multiple doors, locked without handles, such as a door covered in hedges of thorns, the name covered in vines. There was a barren door made of stone, trails of long, long hairs between the stone blocks. Another, much farther down the hall, was a door made of the mirror's glass, and, just before the room their host stopped at, was a door with a pond sitting quietly to the left of the door. Finally, their host opened the last door on the left and turned to his three companions.

        "This will be your room." Bowing with mock respect to the older two, their host stepped aside to allow them in.

         Inside the room, they discovered, were three, simple beds, barren walls, an open closet with hooks crudely placed, a threadbare rug, a dingy window high above their heads, a battered hat stand, and a rusty door handle from the inside of the door. As their host bowed once more, he studied the three women curiously.

        "Aren't you going to ask my name? You will learn to ask questions, and soon, I promise you, but for now, I will give you this: my name, children, is Berdinham Wolfe. You, however, may call me Mr. Wolf."

        With that, he was gone, and they stood facing each other with various different expressions. Finally, Tilli spoke. "Oughtn't we rest for the night?"

         "No," Adrieve said, shaking her head and stamping her foot violently. "We need to leave."

          "I think we need a plan," argued Ryland, staring coldly at Adrieve. "Not everyone can just pack up and leave at their own right. That's what got us here in the first place!"

         "Please, don't fight, not now, I don't think-" Tilli tried, only to be cut of by Adrieve saying:

        "Stay out of this, infant, this has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with her, our fearless leader."

        Sulkily, Adrieve murmured that she would like to go to bed, to which the younger two followed that action. However, awoken from her deep slumber, Adrieve rose noisily from bed, not noticing the moonlight from the window and the destruction in the room. Frowning and abruptly approached the door, she pulled the door open; soon after, she shoving her way through the aged door, the hinges causing it to crash behind her.

        This, knocking over the hat rack, tore her cloak, to which she shoved the door onto Ryland's bed and put Tilli's cloak over her shoulders, ignoring how much smaller it was than her own. After a moment, she stormed into the inky hallway, instinct teaching her to run forward haphazardly.