Moonspear filling me with wonder for all that is

✴       It was upon them so swiftly that Revui hardly had time to react. He was a slower beast - lumbering like a bear, while his brother was the sleek panther - and as he passed through the intermittent daylight, a rectangular figure burst forth from the chiaroscuro after him. It moved swiftly on stilted legs, wedging its chest against Revui's flank and knocking him off course. He spun and buckled from the weight of its momentum but loosed a snarl too, and tried to catch the earth to retaliate.

His snapping teeth were met by the flailing forelimbs of a doe. Her eyes were big and wild, and she flailed for a few more moments before staggering and swinging her crownless head like a club. The scent of birth was on her — but Revui did not recognize this, not like he had recognized the evidence of her presence before. He was too frenzied in his retaliation and distracted by his defence to notice the trail of afterbirth that led deeper through the wood.