Panting softly, my paws slammed into the ground and lifted up again as I raced away from the hunters. They, they with their tranquillizers, calling out to each other, their loud ways.. Ugh. They were so stupid. I whirled, just in time, too, for one tranq dart had just hit where my shoulder had been moments before. Leaping over a fallen tree, I think it was an oak, I heard shouts… “I think that she-wolf’s around here somewhere… We’ve got to catch her..” Oh, no! I was surrounded. They were going to catch me, and lock me up with my brothers and sisters of the night… Oh, this is just peachy. I’m surrounded by dudes with guns and.. Suddenly a whisper came from quite close to my hark. I jumped, scared out of my wits, and then I listened.

“Listen to me, Karlin, you need to swim in the river. We will keep them away from you. Go, wolf, go!”

I landed in the river with a single bound, and though the resulting splashes cost me time 
and stealth, at least I was free. And still running.