IRON HAN, Book 1: The Rise Of Power

Chapter 16 - Red Ringed Rabbit-1

This morning, teacher Ayla brought the children to the Informal Education Building. They entered the training room on the first floor with instructor Sarp. One side of this room was completely windowed and the outside could be seen easily. On the other side, there were 2 rows of chairs that were obviously placed to watch outside. While the children were observing the surroundings, Instructor Sarp explained the lesson,

- The first task you will do under our Enhancing Perception course; Catching a red-ringed rabbit.

3 pairs of small eyes wandering around suddenly trembled and turned to Instructor Sarp. When Demir returned after finishing looking around, Instructor Sarp continued his speech,

- The student who catches the rabbit as soon as possible can take ownership of the rabbit he caught, if he wishes. (Pointing to the window corner of the room) Now go down the stairs to the garden and catch one rabbit each and bring it...

(Instructor Sarp got angry when he saw that the three children did not move from their seats and seemed to object) What are you waiting for, go and don't come back without catching a rabbit.

Demir followed the children who reluctantly headed towards the garden. When they all went down to the garden, Demir looked at his friends and saw that they all had sullen faces, so he quietly approached Durualp and asked,

- Durualp, what happened, why do you all look so downhearted?

- Why, of course it's because of the red-ringed rabbit.

- It's just a rabbit. We'll run a little too far, but we'll catch one in the end, don't worry,

- ??

Looking at Demir in surprise, Durualp thought: "Could this child not know the rabbit?" In the end, he decided not to say anything to Demir because he wanted Demir to have the same experience he had. When he thought about Demir's situation, his sullen face became cheerful. When his morale improved a little, he looked back at Demir.

- You are right. Let's go catch one each rabbits...

Seeing Demir and Durualp enter the garden fearlessly, Eiderd followed them so as not to be left behind. Tauriel, who was left last, began to wait calmly on the sidelines, as if she was in no hurry. After a while, he headed towards a tall tree he noticed and sat on one of its branches.

Instructor Sarp laughed loudly when he saw Tauriel climbing the tree in the observation room.

- This girl is smart, she's not like the others. (Turning to teacher Ayla) Teacher Ayla, this girl was the winner of the test we did yesterday, right?

- ?

When there was no sound from teacher Ayla, Instructor Sarp realized that the guess was correct and continued to observe the children.

Demir and Durualp, who passed slowly and silently near the trees and through the bushes, could not find any red-ringed rabbit, although they searched for a while. Durualp, one of the two who finally heard a rustling, suddenly lost all his courage and froze in place. Demir slowly approached the rustle and saw the rabbit standing about 20 meters away.

He was a very cute rabbit with fluffy white fur. When Demir observed a little more, he saw that the fur just above his front paws was red. These red hairs in the form of very thin lines seemed to encircle his feet. While the rabbit was eating the grass in front of him with its ears drooping on its back, Durualp gathered his courage and came to Demir. He couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the rabbit's red ringed. He immediately turned to Demir and said quietly but determinedly,