Your hands shake. You can't do it. You don't know why, he showed you everything to the contrary, but you still feel like there's good in him.
You lower the stick, "fuck. I'm such an idiot." You breathe deep and calm down. You walk aways out into the woods and throw the stick deep into the brush. You sigh and turn around. As you do you trip on something and face plant in the dirt.
You look back. It's just a stupid root of a tree. You get up and dust yourself off. You walk back to Duke, he is still asleep. You are going to wait for him to wake. You sit on your hind legs about three feet in front of his head. You watch him quietly. He starts shaking and growling with great intensity. He convulses so much you think he's going to die right there.
Suddenly he stops moving. You think he has died but then his chest starts raising up and down slowly. You are so scared. You don't know what he's going to do to you when he wakes up but you don't leave.
He lays still for about twenty minutes, you wait patiently for him. He's eyes begin to open slowly, he sees you. You look down quickly and lower your ears. You don't want to make eye contact just in case he tries to put you in a trance again. He sits up on his hind legs, looking at you.
Neither of you say anything for a few minutes. You are shaking in fear. You tell him quietly, "I was going to kill you, while you dreamed. I sharpened a stick and was going to put it in your throat, but I didn't." You begin to sob, your tears fall on to the ground below you.
He doesn't say anything, "maybe I should have. What are you going to do to me now, rip my guts out, rape me, make me take you to Moki?" You continue to cry.
You both sit quietly for a minute. He stands up and walks over to you. His head is just above yours. You unconsciously piss a little of your heat smell into the air. You are attracted to him and afraid of him at the same time. You brace yourself for a bite or worse. He says, "huh, those all sound like great ideas, little pikachu." A deep sense of dread fills you. His voice sounds different. Before it was ruff and dark but now it sounds still dark but smooth, in a pure evil sort of way. "I owe you a lot pikachu, I haven't felt this good since before Tok died." He cracks his neck. "Are little talk helped me make peace with my demons. For your kindness, I'll let you pick what I do, but since picking rape disqualifies it as such, let's bundle it with rip your guts out. That way it makes it much more interesting."
You do nothing but look straight at the ground in shock. You fucked up big time. He has given you a choice of two terrible options. If you let him kill you, you'll spare Moki, for now. Your death will be horrendous but hopefully the gods will smile on your noble death. If not, Moki will suffer a terrible fate. You've got a few good shocks in you. It won't hurt him much but maybe it could buy some time to run, like what you did to the persian. Then again, you had about a ten foot head start with the persian. Duke is just inches from you now. What do you do?
