Redhawk Caldera This town is colder now

He didn't waste time bemoaning the failure. Peregrine loped back to the fringes of the rabbits' realm, turning his head to scan the grounds with his single good eye. When he spotted movement, he darted toward it with a flash of teeth and several predatory lashes of his tail.

Two frightened rabbits abruptly veered, weaving in and out of his legs. Taken by surprise, the Alpha male did a strange pirouette and then came crashing down, his broad paws flattening one of the hares to the ground and breaking its back with a loud crunch even as its luckier cohort vanished into the earth nearby.

He blinked, then abandoned the corpse. One down! he thought gleefully, stealing a glance toward Elwood to gauge his competition before frantically scouring his surroundings with eyes and nose, already searching for a second victim.