Overture Downs he was eager for the tale to go on

with no way to convey to nunataq the pleasure of the kill, merrick blinked when he saw her eyes upon him, suddenly lit with a wariness he had never wanted to engender in her. and so the boy broke the animal's neck quickly with another squeeze, dropped it upon the ground, and turned to face her with a placating whine.
but within merrick there was a sickening seed he knew unfurled in darkness, and he had no way to tell nunataq that the feel of an animal dying between his jaws brought him a pointed ecstasy that would repulse a normal creature. forgive me, his gaze begged, as the terror that his sister would see him for what he was becoming would make her leave him.