That I did, as a boy. Then I stepped in the trap of a hunter, and I learned quickly that the rules of nature and the rules of men are rarely the same.
( he'd been forced to wear boots after that one, his leg had suffered badly from the snare it'd been caught in. it could have been worse yet, a metal trap that could have snapped his bone in half. at least the snare had been a threat he'd learned early on as a boy, early enough that he'd spent more time in his life with his feet covered than he had without. the huntsman still hated lethal animal traps, though less for an injury he barely recalled. more for all the animals he'd seen lost to them, quite brutally at that. )
The world you are in now is not the same as the place you call home. It is not always easy, yet at times we find need to adapt. Might be that they're not so wretched when you're used to them.
( or maybe they will be, after all, Achilles had gone so long without there might be no adjusting to them completely. hopefully he'd give the boots a shot anyway, though. his friend hoped he might. )
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( he'd been forced to wear boots after that one, his leg had suffered badly from the snare it'd been caught in. it could have been worse yet, a metal trap that could have snapped his bone in half. at least the snare had been a threat he'd learned early on as a boy, early enough that he'd spent more time in his life with his feet covered than he had without. the huntsman still hated lethal animal traps, though less for an injury he barely recalled. more for all the animals he'd seen lost to them, quite brutally at that. )
The world you are in now is not the same as the place you call home. It is not always easy, yet at times we find need to adapt. Might be that they're not so wretched when you're used to them.
( or maybe they will be, after all, Achilles had gone so long without there might be no adjusting to them completely. hopefully he'd give the boots a shot anyway, though. his friend hoped he might. )