text: It was running through the mountains with great agility despite it's size. Hopping over smaller rocks and magnificently keeping it's balance on the snow-covered rocky terrain. The prey -a human in his twenties- was running away from it haphazardly about 30 meters away. He was quite experienced in these mountains, and would not easily trip over the rocks or slip on the snow. Despite this, the creature was quickly catching up to him. The footsteps made him shake even from that distance, like thunder. The human anxiously glanced around the general area to find a corner or a huge stone to hide behind. When he spotted a sharp, horizontal edge popping up from the ground to his right, he changed his direction and quickly took cover behind the stone shape. He let himself slowly slide down onto the snow, pushing his back to the barrier. He tried to slow down and quiet his breathing, so the creature wouldn't sense that he was behind the rock. The thunder kept rumbling harder towards him, shaking every single bit of his body like a small earthquake. Then it stopped. Abruptly. The creature's breathing also stopped; it knew how to trick. Fortunately for the hunter, this human's experience with trickery was quite extensive, and so he got up as heavily as he could, and started stepping to his right as sneakily as he could. Unfortunately for the hunter, he could only take a few steps before a hand his size reached out from over the stone barrier and wrapped it's furry fingers around him, trapping his arms to the side. He was swiftly lifted up from the ground and came face to face with the creature, almost passing out from the pressure of being elevated to 30 meters in two seconds. But that dizziness quickly gave way to sheer panic when he saw it's eyes directly locking onto him. And then it spoke: "*Nolite timere*. *Ego nolo malum*." He shut his eyes. Waiting. Waiting for it to either eat him in one gulp, or pop his head open like the cork in a champagne bottle. But he quickly understood that his anticipation was misplaced when instead of getting shoved down the creature's throat, it spun him around as if it was inspecting him. When it was done appreciating the fine details of this petrified human, it slowly lowered his hand to the ground and loosened his grasp, letting him slide between it's fingers and fall onto the soft white blanket. He screamed as loudly as he could, then ran away with great fear in his eyes. *What just happened? Why did that happen? Am I going insane?* These were thoughts that crossed both the minds of the creature and the hunter. After seeing the him get a moderate distance away from the mountain, the creature slowly walked towards his cave, and dug deeper into his mind with questions like: "Why did I do that? What did I just feel?" going through it's head like lightning. When it reached the pitch black cave, it activated it's infrared eyes. It could now see the cave perfectly to the finest detail. To the right of the cave there were countless little inscriptions and notes in Latin carved onto the wall meticulously. The creature sat down in front of an empty space in the notes and carved another whole paragraph in : "*Today, something very strange happened. I saw a lonely traveler climbing on the mountain and I ran towards him to eat him. He tried to hide from me, but I found him and grabbed him. I was going to swallow him, but this weird feeling came over me when I was about to do it. I felt... weird. I felt bad for him for some reason and didn't eat him. I let him go. I've started to have these weird feelings a lot over the past months, since I ever saw that beautiful human. I think it was female. Normally I would want to eat or crush her, but for some reason I didn't feel that need. I wanted to... protect her. Take care of her. Ever since then my urges to hurt or crush have slowly faded and they have been replaced by these urges that hurt me and prevent me from eating. I don't know how to stop it."* It put down the rock it used to carve the paragraph, and glanced over to the tiny (relative to his size) book titled "Latin" and huddled up in a corner to get some sleep.