Warrior

07 hunt and hide

We swim up to the rivers edge and soak in the sun.
"Why did we swim all night?!" I blurted out panting and grasping for air.
"It's the best thing, and the fire was on our tails,and besides, the person could of saw up running." She had a point...
"But what's are we gonna do now?!" I ask and slump down and lean on a tree. Amber glances at me then the tree, then me again. She gasps and shoves me out of the way to examine the dark oak. "This is one of my old hunt n hide tunnels!" She says with excitement. Her eyes were wide and a bit scary.
"Hunt and wot?" I say standing up and crouching beside her.
"HUNT AND HIDE! When we would hunt, there would all ways be hunters, so we needed to hide whenever there was one near, we called them Hunt an Hinding holes, THEY ARE CONNECTED TO THE OTHER TUNNELS!" She yells and hugs me. I laugh. "This is great! How do we get in?"
"Uhh..." She says and puts her hand on her chin thinking hard at my question.
"Not sure?" I ask putting my hands on my hips. "Well there must be somethin-" I walk around the tree and step on something suddenly I'm swooped underneath and in a tunnel I can bearly stand up, but I crawled. Amber followed me and off me went into the tunnel of darkness. The tunnel smelled of mildew and dust, there was cobwebs everywhere and I could see that Amber had a phobia of spiders.
"Are we out soon I ask" she was in front leading, crawling, I couldn't see squat.
"Just a left then a right" she says and turns left. After a half hour, we reached a huge room. It had two old chairs, book cases, and a coffee table. It looked like a living or family room but without a family.
"Was... This your den?" I ask trying not to look at her invade bad memories came of it.
She sighs. "Yes, it was we had many books and toys but then we had to move for that's what the queen ordered, and it was best for us, because of the hunters..." She trailed off. The room was still and quite. There was barley any light other then the light holes put there on purpose for lighting. She walked over to the table and glided her hand on the table as if remembering something.