After the death of his mother, Sora has now taken it upon himself to know more about the father who perished in battle before he was even born. This self-imposed pilgrimage of closure lead him to wander the land of Firenum, to the places in his mother's tales, in hopes of bonding with his father's memory. When the appearance of a gnoll suddenly disturbs one of his hunts, the young hunter could not help but follow it through the woods to make sure it poses no threat to the human lands on which he resides. The Hunter's Warning is the first of five short stories introducing the five main characters of my new series, The Covenant Cycle. This specific story will centre around a hunter named Sora who comes across a gnoll on one of his hunts, in a place far from where their tribes are known to settle. He follows the gnoll in order to find the rest of its pack and warn the soldier squadrons that patrol the lands of the dangers it may pose. But he finds more than a small pack of wandering gnolls.