calmest before the storm

"I do," she replied, "the bison is a great beast, and I feed on what remains when my masters are done with their kill." Instinct taught her to be a scavenger long ago. It was how she had survived on her own for a year. From what she understood, most of her kind was scavengers, supplemented only by the occasional rat or chipmunk. Tomahawk had never been a great hunter, and she was commanded to stay on the sidelines during the bison hunts, anyway.