Haunted Wood see no [more] evil

Thanks for participating and scaring Swift some more, Hiraku! haha

He continued to pivot his ears around quickly, and he drew his breaths through his nose so rapidly that he started to feel faint. Despite their intention, none of these behaviors did anything to help him perceive his new world, and were it not for the wolf there with him, he likely would have thrown himself into a headlong flee, until he tripped or ran into something. But the wolf's voice gave him something else to think about, and his offer to take him to his mother or call for her relaxed him, some.

He took a deep breath, his twisting ears and fast inhales calming. He was not certain about trusting this wolf, but he was compelled to, perhaps out of desperation, out of sheer fear of being alone in this vulnerable state. "I don't know," he sobbed. How long had it been since that bear's claws tore through his face? "A few days..." It was a guess. He was not sure. "I left her," he continued. "I didn't want her to hear me..." he sniffed. "She's in these woods, just not here. She over..." Swift turned in a circle, "over..." and smacked his nose in a tree and winced.  

"I don't know!" he wailed. His plan to steal away from her so she could not hear him screaming had backfired. In fact, his plan had went no further than finding a branch to dig his eye out with.