A shiver wracked the child’s frame as he clutched more tightly at his cloak and winced at the sharp sting coming from his shoulder. An arrow was embedded deep within it. During one of the skirmishes between his knights and the heathens that threatened the walls of the town they’d been told to protect, he had gotten much too eager to help and had rushed into the fray in spite of his small size. At some point an arrow had been fired at him and the blood spilling down his arm was sending small bolts of panic down his spine. Dying was, frightening. It always took him a while to come back with only so many knights connected to him. The dark always seemed like it stretched on for years. Nervous, he had staggered off to the side into a grove of trees to try and pull it out.
After a fruitless attempt however, when he had looked up the world had looked as though it were cloaked in fog. Everything was silent, and as he stepped out of the grove he paused. The hills were all the same, but the town was not there. Nothing was there. Had he fallen asleep? Feeling a sense of dread begin to creep up on him ,he stepped forward into the field and looked down. It might have been due to blood loss. Such things could cause visions if he remembered correctly. Looking down at the ground, he felt a new wave of fear hit him as the ground itself shifted.
When he looked up again, he was no longer in a field but in a forest. At least, from what he could immediately see. Feeling a sharp jolt of nausea from an uncertain source, he staggered forwards and fell. Small grey downy wings spattered in blood, he curled his fingers into the grass as he tried to breathe. It had to be witchcraft, or a terrible dream. There was no way this was all possible. Being on his own with the form of a mere five year old was dangerous, this he knew, and that was if he didn’t bleed out first. The arrow shifting in muscle and tissue caused him to give a little croak.