Great Bear Wilderness Fading Echos

He heard her bark, and scarcely saw the flash of light color against the vivid green before he tensed. Almost instantly the herd began to break up and scatter to the four winds. Before he really understood what was going on, Mordecai found the herd turning towards him in a panic, and that was the time that he chose to spring from his grassy nest to snarl at them. The elk ahead of him bellowed in response, turning away from the loop they had intended to make on the two that were picking their way through their large grouping. Not fearing their hooves, and perhaps a touch recklessly, Mordecai barraged his way through the turning ungulates to spy out his herd crashing party through the fray.

He spotted the beeline that Cara made towards one particular female, and began chasing off her would be protectors. He tore after one bull not unlike a raging bear, laying teeth into his hide briefly to give him a reminder of what it felt like to be hunted midst a valley of canines. A wound like that would give no lasting defect, but it would serve as a scarring memory. At a young elk, barely out of its first year and headstrong, he tripped up by singling it out; anything that would distract and dismay the spreading out herd and stop them from reemerging on themselves would be good for them.

Once he was satisfied with their fleeing, he joined the others in their pursuit of the doe. It was only up closer that he spotted her weakness, and let out a short bark to announce his rejoin to their group. She would tire easily, no doubt startled gravely by Cara's ambush. Kaname's presence and his own would only serve to push her panic over the edge, and Mordecai salivated at the moment they would bring her down together.