-A Rustling In the Bushes...

Alaister found himself on the edge of a very small cliff.

Something made a sound. Alaister looked around for a minute, before his eyes landed on the object that made the sound. A bush. A very large bush.

"Hello?" He called

No answer. "Hello? Anybody there?"

The bush rustled again. he jumped back, suddenly scared.

"whoever you are-" his voice cracked "Show your self."

Nothing happened. Aliaster began to slowly walk toward the shrubbery on the side of the cliff.  As he got closer he heard a whimpering. He walked faster until he was less than a foot away. He stopped. There were eyes in that bush!. It whimpered again.  Alister edged closer so his face was so close to the bush that if he tripped even just slightly, he would fall down through the bush off the cliff, down into whatever lies below.  He reached out and his hand came in contact with something wet. He pulled back his arm in fright.

As Alaister peered into the bushes the creature slowly started topic his head out. It was a dog. In fact, Alaister recognised what type of dog it was. Its a Golden Labrador. He thought to himself.

"Here boy" he called "Here boy" The dog just stared at Alaister, dumbfounded. Hmm, he thought.

Alister snapped off a small stick off some of the shrubbery, and waved it in front of the dogs nose. He threw it.

"Catch!" Alaister yelled. The dog bounded out of the bush and chased after the stick, which landed on the other side of the small platform. Alaister watched as the dog came bouncing back with the stick in his mouth. He noticed that it had no collar. He mustn't belong to anyone. A stray possibly.
" here boy, here boy" Alaister called. The dog looked up at him expectantly.
"You don't have a home do you boy?" Alaister asked
"Girl" he noticed, correcting himself"
The dog looked down. I guess not then.

"Come'on" Alaister said. He started walking back into the manor but the dog stopped at the door.
"What's wrong? Scared of the old manor are you?" He chuckled.
He patted his thighs and the dog obediently came up to him. He shut the large door behind them.
"I'll have to ask Great Aunt Beatrice, but hopefully you can stay with me" The fourteen year old Alaister whispered.

Maybe...

A/N

Hi guys, so sorry this chapter is so short and took so long to get up. I've just had some sort of writers block and the process for the chapter has just been so slow and exhausting. Any way...

I just wanted to clarify that when you see sentances that look like this that's Alaister thinking. Ok? Ok.

Also, I want to let you know that I have a new book coming out called The State. I'm not sure about the name yet but it will be filled with adventure and danger and the future and bam bang bam, and all that good stuff! So, look out for that, cause that's coming soon.

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