Cedar Sweep while it still beats

arunik'ra had not realized she had company -- until she saw the movement of branches ahead. they were peculiar branches, pale and washed -- and they were attached to a distinctly robust male deer. the scarlet priestess visibly recoiled, her snipey muzzle sharply focusing on the buck. her stomach growled pitifully and how dearly she wished to consume him -- alas, she was but one wolf and one wolf alone was no match for the ungulate.

this fact did not dissuade her from stalking him, which she did -- quickly she took cover in a quivering copse of ferns, nothing save for the baleful intensity of her hungry gaze visible.