Kerash was a great warrior born to be a great leader. Kerash was the daughter of the residing Clan leader and General over the protective forces. Kerash was the strongest, fastest, and deadliest hunter on the island. Kerash was supposed to be at her father’s side taking lessons from him. Kerash was not a babysitter! Kerash was not supposed to run around for half the day chasing some little human child! Kerash was not supposed to have this job at all!

The nearly eight foot high, orangery-brown raptor never understood what she had done wrong to be given the job of watching this little human. Either way, she hoped that they reconsidered their plans soon. She had already wasted two years caring for the child and taking care of her every need, and it was becoming quite annoying. Kerash could think of a thousand more interesting and better things that she could be spending her time on than watching Shekreh, the word she preferred to refer to the girl as, which meant spoiled brat for the most part.

At lest Shrekreh was approximately four by now, at least Kerash assumed that the girl was two by the time she had found her huddled on the forest floor. Hrmph, if she had not found the child at all, it probably would be dead by now and not her problem at all.

Kerash loudly snorted at her thoughts and scowled as she finally spotted the child. Shrekreh was hiding in a corner of the main walkway in and out of the underground caverns, just seeming to be watching everyone else pass by. Her eyes had turned cold in the past year, most likely because the child had lost the feeling of wonderment at every little thing she found. Instead, she seemed to be sizing up everyone who passed her by.

Kerash shook her head in annoyance and grumbled, “One day I’ll understand what goes on inside that child’s small mind.”

Kerash stormed over to Shrekreh and snorted at her, making the little girl jump. Once recovered from the shock of the noise, the girl slowly turned around and looked up at Kerash. The girl’s eyes seemed to be begging for forgiveness as the child feigned innocence.

“Yes, Kerash… I just standing here… You told me no go outside today, so I didn’t… See,” The child softly spoke, not wanting to get in trouble for not doing anything wrong.

Kerash loudly snorted, “No, I told you to stay in the room. This is not my room, now is it.” The rapor-type creature furiously swished her tail then quickly moved behind Shrehreh and thumped the girl’s back with her snout in order to get her to move. “Now, come. Raim is going to watch you for the rest of the day while I meet with my father.”

Shrekreh frowned and looked back at Kerash, “Please, I know how to behave and take care of myself. Raim’s an idiot. Why do I have to watch him make stuff that doesn’t work again?”

Kerash scowled and thumped the girls back once more. “No more arguments. Now, get moving.”

The child decided to give up her protests, though she was still quite miffed over the situation. So, she just slowly nodded and began walking down to Raim’s laboratory. Kerash closely followed behind Shrekreh, wanting to insure that she goes where told.