Phoenix Maplewood Hungry like a wolf

AW...maybe @Thuringwethil?

Fuck this place, Denali thought sourly as he felt his belly rumble for about the hundreth time that day. The big wolf-dog padded stubbornly through the woods, searching for prey. If he managed to catch something, it would be his first meal in days. His growing body was not accustomed to the lack of food.

A small movement near a particularly large tree trunk caught his eye, and his ears pricked, intrigued. He saw the wriggling nose of a vole come into sight. The brown creature was thin, barely a snack, but it would do for now. Denali crouched as low as his big body would allow and snuck towards the potential meal, resisting the urge to lick his lips.

He rushed and pounced, half-expecting the vole to be a hunger hallucination and for his paws to hit empty ground, but to his satisfaction, he heard a frightened squeak, immediately stifled by the crushing weight of the wolf-dog's bulk against its body. Without hesitation, Denali opened his jaws and savagely ripped the animal apart, gulping down whatever meat it had to offer, crushing the smaller bones beneath his teeth as if they were nothing.

Denali lifted his head triumphantly after he had finished and stared into the locust-decimated woods, searching for more tasty creatures. He must look a sight, what with blood smeared over his muzzle and a slightly crazy gleam in his eyes, but at this point, he really did not care.

 

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