Soon the goblin camp came into view. We stopped at the treeline. I motioned Molly back so I could go first.

  Looking from the treeline I saw a camp crowded with tents and partially hidden behind a makeshift wooden wall. I noticed though that the wall appeared broken in places and quite a few tents were collapsed.

  Me and Molly approached the wall carefully. It was quiet in the camp. Too quiet.

  What had happened here?

  I mean I was glad we had not seen any goblins yet but the strange scene still put me on edge.

  As we crept through the opening in the wall I noticed the place was deserted. I finally saw a hint of what happened as we came across a goblin torso that looked like it had been chewed on.

  Piles of bones were also strewn about as it looked like something big had torn them apart.

  I steered Molly away from that.

  Moving on we came across our first sign of life.As we came around the corner of a tent two figures came into view.

  The first was a goblin crouching looking nervous holding what appeared to be bandages. The reason it was so nervous was that it was trying to inch its way closer to the other figure in view. A huge Direwolf or Big Doggy as Molly said was chewing on some bones with a injury on its flank and was growling everytime the goblin attempted to approach it.

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  Upon seeing the Big Doggy as it were Molly eyes went wide and she gasped. The sound was enough to announce our presence. Upon seeing us the goblin's eyes seemed to dawn with recognition and it squealed in fright and ran.

  I could swear that goblin was familiar somehow. Ah well not important. What was important however was that the Direwolf was staring at us now.

  I interposed myself between it and Molly. It growled at the motion but made no move towards us. The wound in its flank must be more severe than I initially thought.

  Molly noticed it was wounded and bless her heart begged me to heal the Big Doggy. I tried to dissuade her but she kept insisting.

  All I wanted was to get her away from the thing. I tried to move her but she planted her feet and refused to budge. With all the improvements to her body stat she was hard to move if she didn't want to be.

  I eventually realized that the quickest way to get Molly moving was just to do what she asked.

  I would however need to come up with a way to distract the creature while I healed it and when we moved on.i observed the Direwolf and for the first time noticed it was starving.

  I ran a probability scenario through my algorithms that had a decent chance of success.A plan started to form. Once I had a plan I put it into action.

  Using the system Shop I bought a pile of food rations. Molly seemed to notice what I was doing and added onto the pile.The Big Doggy seemed interested in the rations.sniffing the air with its snout.

  Molly tossed one of the rations at it. I motioned Molly to step back. The Direwolf eyed the ration suspiciously then tentatively snapped it up.

  The Direwolf got up and slowly limped its way over to the pile. Giving us one last look it buried its snout in the pile and started munching.

  I quickly but carefully healed the wound on its flank then I grabbed Molly and we promptly edged our way out of there leaving the thing to its meal.