Realizing the Huntsman has tricked her, she rips out his heart to pay for what he'd done. Once the Queen receives the heart, she tries to place it into one of her vault boxes, however, none of them magically open, making her realize the heart does not belong to that of a human. Upon further inquiry, the Queen reveals that Snow White once betrayed her trust by revealing a well-kept secret. He then returns to the castle and attempts to read Snow White's letter to the Queen, but she throws it into the fireplace. After letting her escape, the Huntsman takes a deer's heart for the Queen, hoping, but knowing it wouldn't work, to fool her. Snow is shocked that he is letting her go, and he tells her to leave quickly before he changes his mind. Instead, he fashions a whistle out of a twig for her to use whenever she is in trouble. As the Huntsman reads the letter, he is moved by what she wrote and cannot bring himself to kill Snow White. He later finds Snow White sitting against a tree, but stops, puzzled, to see her writing a letter, which she asks that it be given to the Queen. Snow then kicks him, and while he is doubled over in pain, she runs off into the forest, to which he throws off his armor and gives chase. She reveals she knows who he is and of his intentions, surprising him. Disguised as one of the Queen's guards, the Huntsman accompanies Snow White as she walks into the forest. After the Queen concedes to his request, the Huntsman is sent to murder the Queen's stepdaughter, Snow White, and bring back her heart as proof of death. She desires his help to assassinate someone, but he will only agree one a condition: if the wolves are protected from being hunted. She has her guards bring him to her castle. Unseen, the Evil Queen watches his actions from her magic mirror and is satisfied with his actions. This angers one patron, and he attacks the Huntsman, who stabs him in defense.

Though the people insult him for crying over killing a deer, he responds calmly, and notes that men who hunt for sport aren't men at all. Later, the Huntsman and his wolf head into a bar. After killing a deer to provide food for both of them, he sheds a tear over the animal's necessary death. The Huntsman now lives in a forest, along with a companion wolf whom has one eye as red as blood and one eye as black as night. For one of the pack members, Adair, this is a great betrayal. Raised by shapeshifting wolves, the Huntsman grows up in their pack, but later left under mysterious circumstances.

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