There was once a man.Lonely he decided to travel through the village.

He encountered a fox.The fox sat on top of a wall and looked at the man.As the moonlight reflected off of the lake lighting up the night the wind whistled through the creeks and cracks of the mountins.

The man stood still for a moment but decided to keep walking.The fox followed.He tried chasing it away.The fox was ignorant and no matter how many attempts the man made the fox would not leave.Eventually the man accepted the fox as a pet.

They ate,slept and traveled together.Soon the man didn't feel so lonely anymore.Then one day the fox walked off the path.The man couldn't understand why but followed him.The more the man followed the more the fox would run away.

The fox was near a gate outside of the same village they met.The man didn't know what feeling he had.He didn't know why he wanted the fox to stay but he chased after him.As the fox looked back once more at the man.It was like the mountins spoke his mind.The wind whistled again through the cracks and creeks of the mountin and echod on the river surface making the words
"Please...live."
As these words came from the mountin an arrow pierced through the fox's chest.The man gasped in shock.Tears rolled down his cheeks and the man finnally understood his feeling.He realises he cared for this fox but destiny was for the fox to die.Almost like a blessing sent to show the man he wasn't alone.The man ran away and the hunters took the fox.

The man went back home and apologised to his family for running away.He realised he wasn't alone.In the fox's honour they made a shrine in the garden.As a permenant reminder that the man.No matter how hard he tried.Was never truly alone







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