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Redeemed
I return with a grand adventure!
Rabbit's name: Red Mist
Entry: Red surveyed the gathering of buns and smiled widely. It was her time to shine! She felt so energized when all eyes were on her and all attentions was held rapt to her words. She hopped dramatically up in the air and kicked out her back legs to gain full attention, reveling in the collective gasp from the crowd. “So there I was, right at the edge of the Tanglewood, when I heard a sound I had never heard before.” She paused for dramatic effect and then crept around the circle, looking at each rabbit in turn. “It was the most awful, hideous shrieking. Something was screaming and crying out, and I was all alone at the edge of the wood. But was I scared??” She called out to the crowd and puffed her chest out when some called back, NO! Red raised her paws in the air and sat up on her haunches to her full height. “No! I bravely entered the dark trees to discover the source of the noise.” She whirled around and acted like she was searching and dodging tree limbs. “And then,” she dropped her voice to a whisper, “I found it….” With a startling and acrobatic move she leaped into the air and landed splayed out with her ears up and erect. “A bird! Like none I had ever seen! Large, and black, and holding its wings up like the billowing night!!” She held her front legs out to imitate the bird and started shrieking and cawing at the audience, holding in her pleased chuckle when the little kits shrank back in delighted fright. “It’s eyes were blazing in the setting sun as it stared down at me.” She stared staright up to the sky as if she were staring back into the bird’s eyes. “I knew that it wanted me.. DEAD!” She shouted out and started flapping around the circle with her paws like wings, screaming into the air. “It flew from the trees and circled my head, shrieking and cawing at me, almost raking my face with its vicious talons!!” Finally she came to a stop, panting and heaving, crouched down close to the ground as if shielding herself from the bird. But then… I took a deep breath and rose up against that black as night bird, and I shrieked right back at until it became so startled it flew away, leaving me victorious!!” With her head held high she took in the applause and whoops of victory. Yeah, this is the life. Red turned slowly on her back legs to take in all the faces shining with the after glow of a good story. So maybe it had just been a crow cawing into the woods that had startled into flight when she came tripping through the undergrowth. The beauty of story telling was in the grandeur! The acting and the sound effects and the expert pauses between events to give the audience that feeling of anticipation! Red knew she was good at it and she grinned to herself as she started planning out her next adventure turned tall tale.

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