Editing The Toe Chronicles (section)

=== Nathan ===
Under normal circumstances, Nathan would laugh at Bob’s face. At first, his eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and then his mouth opened wide, and the biggest gasp Nathan had ever heard came out of it. Unfortunately for Nathan, he was missing a toe, which meant that he was too busy trying to figure out what to do to laugh. Nathan started bombarding Bob with questions, but Bob was too busy trying to not faint to answer them. After several minutes of asking questions, Nathan finally realized that his companion had no ability to answer his questions. And so, Nathan sat on a stump, dejected, and tried to come up with some way to fix the predicament he was in. 

Sitting on a stump and feeling stumped, Nathan suddenly remembered a rumor of a wise old youngling who was going through town a couple moons back. The youngling was now rumored to be in Liverriver a full two day’s walk from the small town of Willow Creek. He jumped up and looked around to tell Bob of the youngling who might hold information on how to get his toe back, when he couldn’t see him. He was about to call Bob’s name when the ground shifted under him. He almost lost his balance when he realized that he had jumped and landed on Bob, and he quickly jumped off. Nathan then hurriedly apologized for his mistake, and asked Bob if he remembered the wise youngling. Bob remembered and after discussing it they decided to leave the morning the next day as soon as the sun had set, and the moon started to rise. 

    Nathan went to sleep that night feeling conflicted, worried, and above all, amazed that he never noticed his toe being removed. His mind felt like it would fly to space from all the thoughts racing through his head. Eventually, his thoughts tired him out so much that he went to sleep, and he slept fitfully through the rest of the night. Bob, on the other hand, slept great, without a care in the world. 

He was fighting a giant froble right when two hundred little ents charged his way in their thick gray armored shells. He was getting cornered and was about to falter when suddenly, “WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAHAHAHGHAAAAAA.” He sat up quickly still sweating from the terrifying dream. He looked around assessing his surroundings when he realized he was still safe in the barn's loft. The howling of the morning crickets had woken him up along with the newly rising moon. As he got up and was heading out of the barn recollections from the previous day came back to him, and he realized that he had almost been late to meet up with Bob. He arrived at a little opening in the path where they had agreed to meet the night before, and there he saw Bob waiting for him.