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Woundwort Short Stories

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General Woundwort thoughts swirled around his head,
“How could they outsmart the best of my Owsla?’” He twitched his nose at the thought of it.
Fah! General Woundwort yelled as he dragged his scarred body across the stone road.
“Those brailah think they’ve beaten-” He stopped abruptly as a thought that he had buried long ago came to mind. My old name… Gooseberry. “Maybe that's where my failure lies…”

“Mother, Mother” Gooseberry called from outside the den.
“Wake up, the sun is up and it's time we look for the warren!” The gray Rabbit kit banged his foot impatiently. He turned his shining blue eyes to look over the green expanse of field and hill. Hrrrrrr! Goose twisted his ears around, his head then followed, as a green tractor whirred to life. Now we’ll never get …show more content…

Now in the crook of his arm, Gooseberry wondered what this man's intentions was. The man fumbled around in a pile of junk, to then fish out a tall box with strange symbols on the side. He then set Gooseberry down inside and began to walk away. Gooseberry listened for awhile to make sure he wasn’t near.
“I must escape he’s probably going to fetch his death stick.”
He tried jumping into the side of the box, but to no result. Pumf, pumf, pumf . The sound of the beast came closer. Gooseberry looked up to see the Cat perched up on a shelf above the box. Then it spoke in its cunning voice.
“Look what the master dragged in” it meowed as it stretched.
“A treat for me I suppose”
Gooseberry said shakily, but with growing strength “ Y- You don’t scare me Cat!” he hissed.
The Cat purred “Oh on the contrary, your shaking in your whiskers little Bunny.” The Cat added “By the way, my name is Yari-Tab and if you're going to stay here... you better call me by that name!” She

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