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He wanted to glare at her when she told him there was no need for his complaining. But she had tricked him, so he felt he had all the right to cry over how easily he stepped into her trap. Again, she looked at him slyly, and could only screw up his face in further displeasurement when she teased him with the prize of books if he could catch even a measly butterfly. Those were hard to catch, too, he thought, believe it or not. He tried to start a bug collection, but that project proved to be futile when he could not catch anything and the fact that some of the things he found gave him the willies. In any case, he knew this would end in disaster when he could not even successfully capture an insect, much less an animal.
He blinked in surprise as she suddenly grabbed his arm, confused for a moment, but then yelped once, holding onto his hat on top of his head to keep it from falling when she yanked him, when she proceeded to bring him away from the safety of his house, and into the woods. At least he knew the territory well enough to know how to get back to Thornbury without getting lost, he thought, as Eclipse dragged him deeper and deeper into the forest.
"Oh," he remarked. He had hoped that she was only an expert with the bow, and nothing else. He thought that perhaps he had the slimmest of chances to avoid the hunting trip, since he did not have any weapons himself, but his hopes flew out the window, and he finally admitted that he was in the deep end, and there was no other way to get out. All he could do was walking along dutifully with her, having enough sense to at least keep up with her instead of making her drag him all across the territory.
When she released him, he grabbed his arm and rubbed it as if it was sore, but really it was not; dramatically, Robert believed it was. He did not notice the silence nor that Eclipse was staring at him until he looked back at her, with a questioning look upon his face. "What?" he asked after a moment, not sure what she wanted of him now. He had come out here without much of a fight, right? What did she expect now?
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