Cedar Sweep From the wight lying in the barrow

Excellence comes with practice and in Elfie's future hunts, the boy will have learned to choose a more hand spot to hold on, instead of trying to encase the whole sacrum area in his jaws. It did not take long for him to feel stiffness and tiredness set in and it would take days after this hunt for it to go away completely. He tried to press the bite together, but it just did not happen. 

So, in the end he gave up and let go, sent a brief look in his mentor's direction, and then choosing to go and grab the dorsal part of the deer's slender neck, it was easier to hold onto there. All that was left was for Niamh to finish the job.