Fate's Crossing

You charge forward in a rush, pulling out your long dagger once again. Leaping onto the back of the middle wolf, you plunge the dagger into its neck, slicing through the soft flesh and out the other side. The wolves, taken by surprise, run away instinctively yelping with fear. The wounded wolf just squirms on the forest floor for a moment before death takes it.
"We have to get out of here before they come back." you say to the shaking boy as you slide your knife into its sheath.
The boy is speechless all the way back to the road. When he finally finds his toungue, the boy thanks you, but still pleads for you to take him to his mother...