A crowd of excited children had gathered around the jeering ten-year old human boy and his victim. The boy was tall and husky with a mop of unruly, red hair hanging in his dull, brown eyes. The freckles that covered his face seemed to dance with his taunting grin. He was enjoying the attention from his peers that his jests gathered. The fact that he was playing with fire never entered his mind. There are two things that one should never tease; one is a wolverine. The other, the red-haired boy was teasing at the moment.
Adults called him ‘Khiall, a nickname that his stepmother had given him. The human children that he went to school with called him Freaky. That was a nickname he had earned with his looks, his strange behavior, and his temper. He tolerated many names that were hurled at him but there was one name that ‘Khiall hated more than any...
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