Meadowlark Prairie someone to rely on as thunder comes a-rolling down

astara had anticipated the buck would flee. she had not anticipated that heloise would rise to meet it. 

in an instant it was over. the woman’s fangs sunk deep in neck tissue, and the frantic kicking of the ungulate’s hind gradually slowed. astara approached with a wary step, disappointed her ploy to startle the adult had gone so awry. 

she ignored the instruction to eat, instead padding to the buck’s felled head. grappling an antler in her teeth, the girl worried the beast’s head this way and that in the attempt to loosen the antler from the beast’s skull.