text: The fox army moves silently through the forest. You cannot hear any rustling or twigs cracking, that is how silent they are. You end up stepping on a twig a few times but no one seamed to notice. You creep onwards through the words for what seems like hours and hours when Kitsune motions for everyone to stop. He stands there in silence and listens for a minute, making sure it is okay for him to speak.
  
  Kitsune's voice comes out strong and clear. "My people! We are a mile away from Willow Haven, the fawn clan's home. You will wait at the end of the Forrest until I give you my signal, then we will rush the entrance!"
  
  your heart is pounding in your chest. You have trained for so long on how to fight but it never occurred to you that you would be thrust into war in the blink of an eye. Everything happened so fast that you are having trouble keeping up. But after the army starts moving forward again, you pull yourself together. You are ready.
  
  The army reaches the end of the woods. You and Kitsune stand next to each other in silence. You feel the energy of 1,000 people around you, waiting for the signal expectantly. You can see Willow Haven from your spot in the crowd. It looks like a ring of impossibly tall willow trees. You know that the fawn clan are inside. You draw your dagger from its sheath and crouch low. You are ready.
  
  Kitsune raises his dagger and yells. Without missing a beat everyone around you starts yelling and running forwards. You hesitate for a moment then run forward. Kitsune has gotten ahead of you now, a few people are in between you and him. The first row of warriors run through the willow vines, hollering at the top of their lungs. You cannot see what is going on inside. Suddenly, the person running next to you is struck down. You look up and see archers hidden in the willow branches, shorting arrows down at you. You pick up your pace. Kitsune disappears into the willow trees and a few seconds later so do you.
  
  It is complete chaos inside already and half of the fox clan warriors are still outside. You see fawn against fox, dagger against bow. You throw yourself into the melee. You slice at every moving thing with antlers, ripping through the crowd. Soon you find yourself next to Kitsune. As you fight together, he yells to you, "We need to travel up!" You look up and see a mass of rope bridges and wooden platforms and houses nestled into the trees. "Their leader is at the top!" You both slash through hordes of fawn warriors to make it to the entrance to the rope bridges. You run along them while arrows fly at you, trying to take you out. The closer you and Kitsune get to the top, the more fawn warriors you encounter. You and Kitsune take all of them down until you reach a massive tree house at the very top. Kitsune tells you this is where their leader will be. You both burst in to the house, only in time to see a woman shift into a fawn and jump out one of the windows.
  
  You and Kitsune run down the rope bridges after the fawn. You know that she is their leader and you two need some answers from her. She sprints into the battle and twists and leaps her way through the melee. You follow her through the battle and nearly get hit by an arrow a few times. The fawn dashes straight out of Willow Haven and disappears. The fawn clan leader is a very important part of your mission here but you also feel like you should stay and fight with your clan.
  
  > chase the fawn!
  Though it hurts you to leave your clan behind, you know how important it is for you to chase after the fawn. You and Kitsune run through to willow trees and are surprised to find that the battle was going on outside of Willow Haven as well as inside. You look through the crowd and see the fawn running down a little worn trail. Kitsune nudges you and points out Tomas, fighting by the edge of the willows. You get his attention and he comes over to you. When you quickly explain the situation, he says he'll come with you. All three of you shift into foxes and dash down the little trail you saw the fawn go down.
  
  after about half an hour of running, you come to a beautiful grotto with a pond, a small waterfall, and lots of colorful flowers. A white marble pavilion also stands in the clearing, with a large marble statue of who you assume to be Darling. It is a beautiful area. You shift back to human form and begin to search for the fawn who has conveniently disappeared. You look under the pavilion, behind the statue, and in the woods around the clearing but find nothing. You, Tomas, and Kitsune begin to get frustrated. Just as you are about to give up, something amazing happens
  
  In the pond, the water starts moving in a whirlpool. It gets faster and faster until a wide hole opens up in the water, just like the one you fell down to get here. It was a fairy hole! You have the sudden happy realization that you could go home. But then you think of the time you have spent in the Other Realm. You realize that this is home for you too. Do you want to stay in the Other Realm or go back to your life before?
  
  > jump through the fairy pool
  You have become enchanted with the Other Realm but you decide that it is time for you to go home. Tomas and Kitsune are still searching and have not yet noticed the fairy pool. You could just jump through and go home without anyone noticing but something stops you. You look over at Kitsune and realize that you have fallen in love with him. He was the one who first took you in at the fox clan, he trained you and taught you everything you know. After all your time spent with him, you are completely in love with him. You look back at the fairy pool.
  
  You realize that you could ask Kitsune to come back to your world with you, but you don't know what he will want. Do you even want to try asking him?
  
  > ask Kitsune to come with you
  You call his name. He looks up at you standing by the edge of the pond and jogs over to you. As he approaches, his eyes shift from you to the pond and notices the fairy pool. He gets a sad look in his eyes.
  
  "Are you going to leave?" He whispers.
  
  "Yes." You reply.
  
  He looks into your eyes and you see the sorrow in his own.
  
  "Tomas, I need to tell you something." You start. "I love you."
  
  "I love you too. Please don't leave me."
  
  "I want to go home." You tell him "I want you to come with me."
  
  Shock registers on his face. He looks at the fairy pool then back at you. He seems unsure. You start to think that you should not have even asked him in the first place. He is quiet for a long time. Then he reaches out and pulls you close to him.
  
  He whispers in your ear, "I am the leader of the clan. I love you, but I cannot leave my people."
  
  Your heart sinks. Of course Kitsune could not come home with you.
  
  "Please," Kitsune begins, "Stay here."
  
  It is a tempting offer. Do you want to give up your chance to go home to stay with the person you love?
  
  > stay with Kitsune
  Kitsune is your home. You do not want to go back to your old life with out Kitsune. Almost as if the fairy pool can read your mind, it begins to disappear. He was the reason you stayed, you love him. He was always there for you throughout your journey in the fox clan. You love him completely and unconditionally.
  
  "I thought that was what you've been waiting for, a chance to go home."
  
  You turn around and face him, taking his hands in yours.
  
  "I'm choosing you, Kitsune."
  
  Kitsune smiles widely and pulls you in for a kiss.
  
  You both stay there in each others arms until you hear Tomas yell, "Hey! I think I found something!"
  
  You and Kitsune run over to where Tomas is.
  
  "Look at this." He says.
  
  He picks up a large rock and chucks it at the waterfall. To your surprise you hear it hit stone and echo, as if there was an empty space behind the waterfall.
  
  Tomas laughs. "Tricky little fawn."
  
  You all charge through the waterfall, Kitsune at the lead. On the other side, a woman with long white hair and decorated antlers stands, wearing a soaking white gown.
  
  Kitsune snarls at her. "Why did you break the peace, you idiot. You do realize we will kill your entire clan now, don't you?"
  
  "Break the peace? What the hell are you talking about?" She looks surprised at Kitsune's accusations.
  
  "Don't pretend that you don't know what you did. You collapsed our tunnels and killed our people!"
  
  The woman's eyes widen in realization. "Oh no." She whispers to herself.
  
  "Oh no what?" Kitsune asks, still with fury in his eyes.
  
  "Our clan members who patrolled the woods had said they had seen small animals ripped apart, patches of bloddy wolf fur and teeth throughout the forest, but I didn't think it could be true. It must have been the wolf clan who collapsed your tunnels."
  
  You have no idea what she is talking about. You knew nothing of a wold clan. You believed there was only a fawn clan and a fox clan.
  
  "Wait, theres a wolf clan?" You ask.
  
  "There was." Kitsune tell you. "Our warriors wiped them out years ago."
  
  "It seems you did not wipe out all of them, Kitsune." The fawn woman says.
  
  "How do I know you're not lying, Emerald?"
  
  Emerald reaches into her pocket and pulls out a piece of fur and a yellow tooth.
  
  "See for yourself." One of my patrols found this about a month ago."
  
  Kistune snatches the fur and tooth out of her hands and examines it. Tomas looks over Kitsune's shoulder and studies it too. Kitsune looks at Tomas. "Go call our warriors back. Emerald is telling the truth, the fawn had no part in the tunnel tragedy." Tomas runs out of the waterfall and everyone else follows. Back outside, You, Emerald, and Kitsune sit in the grass while Tomas runs up the trail and shifts into a fox.
  
  Kitsune turns to you. "I guess we will have to start hunting down the wolf clan."
  
  You look at Kitsune and Emerald. You realize that this could be an opportunity to make peace between the clans. You think about proposing that the two clans join together to hunt the wolves. You aren't sure if you should say anything though because the fawn and fox clan have been enemies for ages. Some things can never change. The looks of absolute hatred you saw in Kitsune's and Emerald's eyes earlier makes you question your idea.
  
  Do you want to say anything?
  
  > propose Peace
  You offer your suggestion to Kitsune and Emerald. To your surprise they do not automatically disagree. After a long time of talking, long enough in fact that Tomas had time to come back and tell you the fox warriors had retreated, it was decided that the fawn clan and the fox clan would join together to wipe out the last of the wolf clan. You feel happy knowing that you have brought peace to the clans. After centuries of useless fighting they have put their differences aside because you suggested it.
  
  > Eternal Peace - Epilogue
  You and the fawn clan work together to take out the wolves, a ferocious and cruel clan. The don't fight with weapons like your clan or the fawn clan, but with their teeth and claws. They are a gruesome clan who wears animal teeth around their necks and painted tribal designs on themselves in blood. They were tough to take out but in the end you manage.
  
  Back at the Fox Hole, your main job is to help train people for The Journey. You enjoy it very much and luckily, with your amazing training, most of the foxes successfully complete it. Soon after the war with the wolves, Kitsune asks you to marry him. You didn't even know they did marriages in the Other Realm until he proposes. You say yes, of course.
  
  You get treated like a queen, after all you are married to the leader of the fox clan. You even get a crown like the one KItsune wears. Yours is a band of the glowing stone with polished fangs taken from the dead wolves lining the front. Your crown is a bit gruesome, but it is the spoils of the war you fought long and hard for. You are admired and feared for your skills as a warrior. No one ever forgets that skill, the proof of it is worn on top of your head everyday.
  
  After finally making peace with the fawn clan, you become good friends with many of the fawn people, including Rowan, who was the fawn you first saw when you came to the Other Realm. Darling's temple has become a place to mingle with members of the other clan. People share stories, trade beads, feathers, and stones, and the fox people even teach each the fawns how to use a dagger and same with the fawns and their bows.
  
  You love life in the Other Realm. It's certainly more fun than being a loner stuck in a dead-end job like you were in your past life. The fox clan is your home and it is everything you could have ever asked for.
  
  The End