Moonspear filling me with wonder for all that is

young as the boys were, they were imbued with a feral and hostile vigor; arcturus held fast to the bleating doe, his teeth clenched resolutely around the slack fur in her flank. she buffeted him more than once, each hoof a sting with a following insult -- he closed his eyes tight yet refused to relent.

when he opened them his brother, instinctual as the settling drift of shadow, had seized the doe's throat.

still, arcturus did not relent.

he was dragged for meters then, his small weight still a hindrance to the struggling hind, which gave her all in rebuking the savage rent of his teeth. yet revui's blow was sapping, and soon she was bled of her vigor and collapsed across the thin-bladed grass. her wide eyes tremored and she looked upon her doom with silent pants; and still, arcturus did not relent.