Red Riding Hood Page #2

I feel like...

...I'm being sold.

Right up there.

You better watch yourself.

There's a fork.

Let's split up.

Another fork.

We'll take the steep one.

No. We should stay together.

Good morning, dear.

Morning, Grandmother.

Grandmother told us

that the wolf used to kill entire families...

...snatching children from their beds.

Those stories never seemed real to me.

Until now.

Ripped the thing out!

Claude.

To Adrian.

For his sacrifice.

To Adrian.

Poor Henry.

Henry.

Your father was a brave man.

You know, I was close enough to smell it.

And I was afraid. And I hid from it.

I didn't do anything.

I should've saved him.

- Henry...

- Just leave!

I don't want you to see me like this.

It was Henry's father, wasn't it?

The man you loved?

Lucie was in love with him.

She was a year older than me.

She could've married him.

Why did you insist it was me?

I think you know the answer to that.

I want you to say it.

Lucie was Henry's half-sister.

Adrian was her father.

Does Papa know about Lucie?

No. And you have to promise me

that you'll never tell.

Father Solomon.

He's here.

Claude.

Presenting His Eminence...

Father Solomon.

Papa.

Oh, please don't cry.

You see? You see all these children?

You see how scared they are?

There's a big, bad wolf.

Someone has to stop it.

Is that the beast that killed our mother?

It may very well be.

Go on. I'll join you soon.

No.

Go.

This is indeed an honor, Your Eminence.

Welcome.

You've arrived just in time for our festival.

As you can see,

the werewolf has been dealt with.

That is not a werewolf.

No disrespect...

...but we have been living

with this beast for two generations.

We know what we're dealing with.

Well, no disrespect...

...but you have no idea

what you are dealing with.

I was like you once.

My wife's name was Penelope.

She gave me two beautiful daughters.

We were a very happy family.

We lived in a village like this.

And like Daggerhorn...

...ours was plagued by a werewolf.

One full moon,

my friends and I got drunk.

We decided to hunt it.

It never occurred to us that we might

actually find it, but find it we did.

It ripped...

...my best friend in half.

Quickly.

And then it was on me.

I hacked and hacked at it with my axe.

Suddenly...

...it was gone.

I had cut off one of its front paws.

I thought it might make a clever

souvenir, and so I took it home.

And there I found my wife...

...with a bloody rag

wrapped around her wrist.

And when I opened my sack...

...the werewolf's paw...

...was gone.

This was in its place.

I told my girls

the werewolf killed their mother.

But that was a lie.

I killed her.

When a werewolf dies,

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