Evan was getting more and more anxious. "Are they fighting already?"

Tarquin lowered his voice.

"Not yet. Relax. You know Bernard's got our plan in mind. If he's going to make a move, it won't be here and now. He'll pick the right place."

He'd definitely keep his distance, Tarquin thought, just to make sure nothing messed with their plan.

And judging by the state of this bunch, Bernard must have already scared the living daylights out of them before he left.

“Let's take care of these guys first-quick and clean. Then we'll go find them," Tarquin said.

Evan was still nervous, but he nodded. "Alright."

Father and son worked like a well-oiled team. Tarquin scattered a handful of hallucinogenic powder, while Evan played the spooky ghost, darting right under the hunters' noses.

The group of hunters was already on edge, and once the powder kicked in, their nerves snapped.

Chaos erupted. People screamed and dashed for cover in every direction.

Some got hit by friendly fire, some fainted dead away, and others just ran around wailing for their mothers.

Tarquin and Evan, having taken the antidote ahead of time, were immune to the effects.

They herded the frenzied hunters like wolves, making sure none of them slipped out of the circle-keeping them in the thick of the hallucination, pushing their panic to the max.

Only when Tarquin figured the drug had done its job did he let them bolt into the forest.

woods, the real battle

guns, but their minds were

wild animals had no weapons, but their

strengths and weaknesses-an

echoed. Gunshots and screams rang

obvious the animals

a wolf pack brought them down,

out with a single

smacked another clear across a clearing-he landed a

predators of the daylight were now prey, fleeing for their

ones hunted all day, had become

it all unfold, not a

people worth

Not at all.

wild animals-now

They barged in here with hunting rifles, breaking every law on the

nothing

it on

it clear-no poaching, no

harmony with nature isn't just for the sake of the animals-it's

ecosystem is

would never

the animals

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