Anna felt as free as a bird she was riding with Sly on the horse away from the castle .She turned at the back to see if they were being followed but finally the coast was clear. " Goodbye old life and hello new life." She said to herself and smiled. She finally did it ,she finally got the courage to get out of the castle. The horse stopped suddenly and Sly went down from the horse , he just stood there admiring her, he thought to himself , (she is so beautiful her long hair running down towards her back) her exquisite and expensive silky clothes were all dusty from the horse ride but that still didn't take away from her beauty.
Anna turned towards him to see him staring at her and said, " I must look horrible to you right now. My hair is a mess from the horse ride, my face is so dusty and I feel that I need to take a long relaxing bath. Oh how I miss Mona right now."
Sly asked, " Who is Mona, a friend of yours?" Anna replied, " She is my personal assistant and she helps me get ready for special occasions."
Sly laughed hysterically , " My we are spoiled ,you have some dressing you up and giving you a bath. Tell me princess, what do you do by yourself?"
Anna felt offended, " I do many things by myself .Do think I live a pampered life in the castle? I have responsibilities towards my kingdom."
Sly said, " Well Princess Anna, your responsibility now is to survive in the wild. Can you handle that?" Anna was about to answer him but she heard a growling sound. She ran towards Sly and unintentionally grabbed his arm and placed it around her shoulder and whispered, " What was that?"
Sly laughed, " That was my stomach growling .Come on let us go look for food. I don't know about you but I am starving." Anna kept on grabbing his arm looking around left and right searching to see if there were any wild animals around.
While they were searching for something to eat Sly picked up a long stick and with his knife pocket began to sharpen the edges til it looked like a sharp arrow. Anna was curious and asked, " What is this for?" Pointing at the Arrow. Sly replied, " I am making an arrow so I can go hunting for wild animals for us to eat."
Anna was so shocked by his reply and took away the arrow he was holding. He narrowed his eyebrows and shouted, " What is the matter with you? Give my arrow back!"
Anna yelled, " No I won't not even if my life depended on it. " Sly then tried to take it from her but she ran off. He said, " Anna, I am not going to fight you to get it. Please can you give it back and tell me what I did wrong." Anna was hesitant at first but they thought if she was honest with him it would not cause problems between them. She slowly handed back the arrow and replied, " I love animals. I don't want to harm them and I definitely won't kill them to fill my belly up. I would rather starve."
Sly got mad, " You are serious. What do you expect from me to eat apples and oranges from the tree?"
Anna was even more furious, " You can try to eat healthy, maybe that would calm your temper down a notch or two."
Sly stared at her and noticed that she looked even more beautiful when she got angry her face got more red that made her eyes stick out and look more appealing she examined her silky dress that was covered in dust from the horse ride but still looked attractive on her.
Sly came closer to her and whispered in ear , " I will tell you something if you undress and change. I will eat the apples and oranges."
Anna pushed him away, " You jerk, you really want to get under my skin . I would not undress…" He interrupted her, " Calm down, you misunderstood me. I meant you need a change of clothing because you can't walk around this area looking like a princess. It is too dangerous!"
Anna ignored him and just stormed off and just walked away in the woods by herself. She reminded herself, " I don't need a man to tell me what to do, that is why I left in the first place." She walked among the long green grass for a while and then she heard a whimpering sound of some crying. She went to see where the sound was coming from , to her surprise she saw a small, tiny, white rabbit cry from pain. ' Poor rabbit." She thought,looking at what caused the rabbit to cry.' Oh my goodness!" She exclaimed, she saw that the rabbit was stuck in an animal trap. She bent down towards the rabbit, " Oh it's ok dear fellow I will get you out of here." She searched for something to help her get the rabbit out of the trap, she looked around her and found a long wooden stick ,then she took it and placed it under the trap to help release the rabbit.
After some effort , finally with Anna's help the rabbit escaped from the trap. She carefully held it softly in her hands and patted the rabbit's furry hair, " There you are safe now I won't let anyone harm you again." Then she heard a man's scary voice behind her saying, " Are you sure about that?" She slowly turned around and saw two men with rifles in their hands and they told her, " That is our lunch you're carrying and we don't appreciate anyone stealing our food."
Her heart began to beat so fast she felt she could hardly breathe , she muttered softly , " Well I am sure you can find other animals in this side of the forest but this one is mine." The men began to laugh out loudly, " Do we really allow you to take it without a fight? " One of the men came closer to her and she could smell his dirty smoking breath through her nose, "Maybe we can allow you to keep the rabbit if you give something in return."
Anna began to tremble and was afraid to ask what they wanted, then another man pinned her to a tree bark and whispered to her ear, " You are a beautiful young woman and I am sure you know what a man wants." Anna closed her eyes saying a prayer in her heart "Oh Lord save me."Then she heard someone say ,"Leave her alone or I will place this knife through your throat." Anna opened her eyes to see her savior and it was Sly standing there pointing a knife on the man's back.
Both men lowered down the rifles and hesitantly said, " Ok calm down, no harm done, we just wanted to hunt an animal for lunch. Is that a crime?" Sly replied angrily, " Well hunt your animals somewhere else. This animal is taken." They both ran off scared .
Anna ran quickly to Sly and hugged him. " Oh Sly I was so afraid I thought they were going to kill me!" She looked into her eyes puzzled, " Wait a minute ! How did you know I was in danger?" Sly replied, " I didn't know you were in danger , I came back because it was getting dark and I was worried something might happen to you and it is a good thing I did."
Anna was also glad that he came back, " Oh Sly I am so sorry about the argument from before. Will you forgive me?"
Sly nodded his head, " No I should be the one asking for your forgiveness. Anna, I shouldn't have thought of hunting an animal after I knew how you felt about them ."
Anna was shocked by what he just said, " So you are not going to hunt animals anymore?"
Sly replied, " As long as we are stuck together in this forest I won't."