Widow Lucas protests by explaining her own terrifying experience of having been marked by a wolf in the past. After returning to the village, Mayor Tomkins calls for a meeting where he demands an even larger hunting party so they can put an end to the massacre of people and their livestock. When they go to fetch water from the well, the mangled, bloody corpses of the hunting party is discovered. The next morning, she finds a woman, who calls herself Mary, hiding in the chicken coop barn. As Red goes to rest for the night, Widow Lucas reminds her to keep her cloak on since the color red repels wolves. Red expresses an interest in it, but Widow Lucas refuses and the pair lock down the house for safety. He asks for more volunteers to help the hunting party kill the wolf. One evening, she and Widow Lucas receive Mayor Tomkins at their door. They dream of running away together, but things are not safe in town with a bloodthirsty wolf running around on every wolfs time, or full moon.

In a budding romance, Red falls in love with the blacksmith's son, Peter, and the two have secret rendezvouses near her cottage window at night. From that time, she becomes known as Red Riding Hood because of the red cloak she wears. Granny then trades a red cloak from a wizard to prevent the girl from turning into a wolf while wearing it. When she turns thirteen, the girl experiences shapeshifting for the first time, but has no recollections of it.

She grows up not knowing her parents, and believes that her mother died some time ago. In a small village, the daughter of a werewolf, Anita Lucas, is raised by her grandmother Widow Lucas, who separates her from her mother to prevent the girl from following in Anita's footsteps.

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