Moonspear it gets better

The young sea lion was fleeing, and Jarilo was soon sure that this immediate takedown was all on him when he didn't find anyone else joining up beside him to lend their teeth to this cause. He just had to hope his sister and dad had the bigger ones handled well if that was the case. He didn't know what he was missing out on with them and since he didn't have a choice, he was all too focused on the minor panic involved in figuring out how he was going to get this weird mammal to stop trying to escape his grasp.

When he grabbed the hind foot-fin it squealed some more and when he ripped it back with a nasty chomp, it turned its head back towards him and screamed and bit fearfully back at him until Jarilo flattened up and let go. Not appreciated, but he made it out unscathed..

But, satisfied with a closer look at its reaction and having bloodied it a little more, he picked up his position anew. Jarilo pursued again, this time able to swing more bites for its rump to try to steer it actively away from the adults (and his family's help). Each time he noticed it start to slow--either from fatigue or his efforts at picking away at it actually working or both, but he was gaining his confidence stride by stride, so it came with an ugly bloody sneer as he chased on, really determined now that he was figuring this out.

Nevertheless, his work left a bloody trail in the churned-up sand and finally he got the courage to go for the neck when he was more tired of its pitiful "run" and its wailing than he was scared of its bite. In the end, it wasn't a.. particularly clean kill, he was kind of messy about sinking in just right, but the sea lion stilled beneath his grasp and he finally let go in a moment of heart-pounding holy shit. He had completely lost track of whatever everyone else was doing: Charon, Vela, and adult sea lions whose baby he had just murdered included.