Ouroboros Spine How charged with punishments the scroll,[m]

When he moved to take over, she shifted away. There was a reason for it. So she fell onto her haunches and her tail beat against the earth. She was hungry. Having unearthed much of whatever animal lay there, he would pull the rest out when he finished digging and they would eat. 

She watched him attentively. She inched forward, but practiced patience, letting out a quiet whine but falling mute thereafter, observant.