Iktome Plains cardboard lotus bud

She had travelled far from her home, having stalked a doe for a while, but her hunt having been unsuccessful due to a stupid, beginners mistake. After cursing at herself generously, she had continued to travel, not truly paying attention to her direction but knowing that she would find her way back, eventually. She had gone so far, why not farther? 

She unknowingly chanced near to another, thought she did not know it to be so, and continued her walk a little further before coming to a stop a distance from the other, only now catching the other in her gaze. She watched, recognizing her gait as a hunter's crouch, and stayed silent, lest she be hunting something and had no desire to be disturbed.