A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

With eyes fluttered shut, Jacob's lips had turned blue in his pasty colored face. Clearly he had become poisoned after sucking the venom from her wound.

Anxiously she patted his face to try and wake him up. However, nothing worked and he remained unresponsive. Terrified, she began crying.

But she realized that she had to remain calm. There was no-one to help them, and it was up to her.

She had to take Jacob back!

Emily struggled to help him up and pull him onto the back of the cow. But weakened by the poison as she was, she lacked the strength to move him effectively and almost dropped him to the ground.

The normally docile old cow, however, didn't understand what was going on, and was somehow scared by Emily's movement. It suddenly bolted forward, ripping the rope from her hands and running off.

"Come back!" She knew that without this cow, there was no way in which she could take Jacob back to the village for treatment. On foot it would take too long and he had no time to waste!

She set him down and ran after the old cow. It stopped at the edge of a cliff as she chased it.

"Do not run!" Breathlessly she roped the cow and patted its head, pleading with the animal, "Come back quickly with me now."

"Moo," The cow made a noise, as if wanting to tell her something.

Emily didn't take it seriously. When she tried to lead it to turn around, suddenly there was an extra force behind her which gave her a hard push.

"Ah!" Emily screamed as she fell over the edge of the cliff, with no way to stop her forward momentum. The empty valley echoed with her fearful scream!

In her place stood the woman who had pushed her forward. She looked casually over the edge of the precipice and smiled in satisfaction when she saw no sign of Emily.

"The short-lived competitor, you will have no chance to rob me of my man."

Cherry's lip curled into a malicious arc, and she took up the rope to lead the old cow over to the collapsed Jacob.

go instead of sucking out venom

had been while

out and separate them! How fortuitous that Emily had been bitten by a poisonous snake then. As if in answer to her

Jacob kill the snake and help Emily by sucking the poisoned blood from the bite

jealousy grew in

on Emily as she went after the cow. Taking advantage of her inattention, she pushed Emily

and every year a few people would fall, and they would all die!

Emily's fate. With her dead, Cherry would be the prettiest

definitely prefer her, right?

take him back to Mr. Bearfoot. Otherwise he might die of poisoning and

often did farm work, she was strong enough to quickly pull Jacob onto

down, Jacob regained consciousness

eyes and saw a woman in front of the cow. But, she was not the

Why are you

because it showed that he was not completely poisoned and would recover,

in

and stared at him, "Nothing is impossible. If I had not saved you, you would still

up a story.

in Emily, Cherry said unthinking,

words, he jumped off the cow and grabbed Cherry by the neck.

face turned red, but arrogantly she refused to answer, "I will...absolutely

instant, and his face filled with rage. His eyes were full of scarlet light as he raged, "Tell me! Where

blue, struggled to make a

Emphasizing every syllable, his eyes shone with a bloodthirsty glint,

about to

she