“All right,” Alex said as he saw that Amanda was ready to listen to his tale,

“I shall begin. . . Even before the time of the First Demon King, our people have already been living in the forest.

We – the Werebeasts – along with the other non-humans and half humans lived in the vast forest that was provided by the Earth Mother. Each race was given portions of the forest to govern, maintain, and protect. Of course, given that each portion was equally abundant to the rest of the forest, the races mostly only tended to themselves. But of course that abundance was short-lived.

“The Races started to...