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Nathaniel Persuasive Letter

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The forest was silent. Too silent. Woods were supposed to be vibrating with activity, never quite calm yet still never active. The insects should be buzzing, the owls calling, the night wolves roaming. Nathaniel knew this, and it made him anxious. The only sounds that were heard were his footsteps, but he knew he wasn’t alone. He never was these days. He had felt someone following him for a few days, but he never bothered to go find them. He had thought that, if they wanted to kill him, they already would have tried in the dozens of occasions they had in a day, like when he was changing or when he had to go hunting. In those moments, he never was 100% alert, instead focusing on the task at hand. However, he had still never let his guard down, because …show more content…

He tried saying something in his defense, to make them understand that he had not committed such a crime, but one of the guards cut him off:
‘’We do not want to hear your petty excuses. If you resist in any way, you will be killed and brought to the Prince dead. He has specifically said he didn’t care if you were alive or dead… or injured.’’
The one that had said this was a woman with a scar across the left side of her face. Probably made by a dagger, Nathaniel thought, given the precision of it. She was very obviously the Commander, for everyone seemed to rotate around where she was standing and what she was doing. He could have beaten the small man standing to her side easily, and maybe also the slim girl standing to his left, but he knew what was best for him. Even if he did defeat a few of them, the rest would certainly kill him in an instant. Before taking his staff off his back, he warned the guards of his actions. He didn’t want them to think he was going to attack. He dropped to his knees, putting the wooden, pulsating stick on the ground next to him, hoping not to look menacing. Rocks scrapped his knees as the thud of his body weight was

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