Bearclaw Valley And all the good you've done / Will soon get swept away.

joined by the shadow of her mate, astara's stride lengthened.

where merrick lunged for fiery flank, astara lunged for the hide -- and once it was in her jaws she pirouetted away with a resounding snarl, spinning once more so she was facing both ganondorf and merrick.

with a terrific heave of her head she swung the skin back and forth with the intention to mutilate it -- to render it into tatters. it was then the stone was flung out on a whirling arc some twenty feet high. astara tracked its bascule first with disinterest, and then widening horror -- as she realized the identity of the object.

she dropped the skin without pausing, and lunged after the stone which rolled away in the tall grass.