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Upon closer examination Esma could tell that the guy was roughly the same age as her. The size difference between them, however, gave the young man more maturity than her though. And in her fear and stress she felt even smaller than she actually was. 

Rather than moving away, he neared her hiding place and it would only be a matter of time, before he would catch sight of her. With him being so near her hiding place in the trees, there was no chance that he would not spot her (curse that tawny-piebald coat of hers!). She gulped, shrunk even smaller and thought frantically on her next course of actions. 

If she were to run off, he could catch up with her easily. Plus, she had not the slightest idea of, where she was, and taking off again with no sense of direction would make her situation even worse. Engaging in a conversation was out of the question, because she was not supposed to talk to strangers. And socializing with people scared her. 

Then in a moment of desperation she decided that her best course of action was to charge forward and catch that danger before her by surprise. Therefore she lunged in is direction with a loud half-growl-bark that sounded like: "WARGHW!"