Sleeping Dragon strik-skyplei

title means "little sky-hunt"

Seregryn had found a barren patch upon the mountain - not wholly empty of cover, but with a limited spread of trees - and she had sequestered herself within the shrubbery, waiting, watching. Her goal was to lurk there until someone interesting came by; however, it was not long before the fos goufa was losing patience. It took maybe an hour before she began to stare forlornly up the crag, wondering if she should try to bait one of her superiors out of hiding — as if they would come out of the woodwork just to entertain her. Everyone was most likely too busy with their duties, as she should have been.

The only movement she bore witness to was the hopping and flitting of tiny birds. They hid in some neighboring bushes, and were having a gay old time grabbing at grass seeds, or bumbling their fat bodies in to one another, or simply making a chorus of noise from their perch. She couldn't count how many there were — they were many, and too small — and eventually she stopped watching her surroundings and was focused upon the birds. This would be good practice, she thought.

Collecting her limbs beneath herself, cat-like and ready to spring, the agile young wolf held herself close to the ground. She watched the birds make their erratic way closer, then farther, then in to the air, all of them going in different directions for different reasons; the wind was on Seregryn's side (if that mattered at all), and then with one explosive pounce followed by a flurry of scrambling steps, Seregryn launched herself at the flock of sparrows with her mouth wide open.

When the chaos ended and the birds had relocated to a higher and safer place, Seregryn turned her head and spat one plump chikadee on to the stone; it was an odd little bird, different in shape (being so round) and color (the distinctive striping was what led her to it during the spontaneous charge). It was too small to be of value, so she simply let the dead thing sit there at her paws, and stared down at it, triumphant.