Porcupine Ridge Skipping Stones

the two wolves worked in tandem, illea shouting praise to her friend and vuk responding with a flick of her tail as she dashed madly after the wily little creature. as luck would have it, her denmate darted into the thing's path; it hesitated for only a fraction of a moment. unfortunately for the ermine, those few seconds were all the vuk needed to reach out a paw and shove the mustelid into a deep drift, breaking its spine.

ducking her muzzle, the girl surfaced with the dangling body and trotted proudly back to illea. without her denmate's help, however, the kill would not have been made, and so vuk nudged the carcass toward her friend. "thank y-you."