Soukoku

(You can be Chuuya or Osamu.) *

• It was night in the forest now, everyone was asleep, and nature seemed to have ceased to exist for this time. The red creature wandered along the road, feeling its stomach cramp... Its paws could no longer hold it and it wanted to fall to the ground from helplessness. *

• It happened quite recently, it seems, 2 days ago. Everything was wonderful, an ordinary life, without thinking, without pity and conscience, only survival instincts, until something happened. No one understood what it was, but the water in the only forest lake began to glow. The desire to survive was stronger than fear, which is why the animals began to drink. Later, intelligence appeared...? It was very strange. And then something even more incomprehensible happened, because if you wanted, you could turn into a person. The fox had seen people before, their habits, their walk, their conversations. Only the images were different, because those who had seen the light retained some animal features. Chuuya had fox ears and a tail. What was also surprising was that when he transformed, some kind of clothing appeared, each person had their own. And yet, it was much more comfortable in fox form. *

• Let's get back to the fact that Nakahara's stomach was churning with hunger, but he couldn't hunt, he felt sorry for the prey... Each of them has a family, a life, and he didn't want to take it away. And if he had to choose death, he would choose his own. *

• At one point, it started to rain. The light drizzle quickly turned into a downpour, which contributed to his further deterioration... And then darkness. *

• The next morning, he didn't really remember anything... His head ached, he had no strength, but he didn't feel the cold. Chuuya was somewhere in a small cave. Barely getting to his paws, Nakahara immediately fell, because his body had not fed for two days. *

"A pitiful sight,"* a voice said from somewhere above. *

• The fox raised his head and spotted a brown wolf. Not a massive one, but at his paws lay a piece of fresh meat, which he had obviously hunted himself. Tch, as if he were bragging... But then his paw suddenly moved the food closer to the red-haired muzzle, causing Chuuya to involuntarily frown. Why such leniency?