Dragoncrest Cliffs This room'll stay just as it is now, for quite some time

<3 This was fun! Thankya for the quick trade-y thread, but hopefully these two actually interact sometime soon haha!

With her situation as precarious as it was, all it took was for one of the grouse to take notice of her and eyeball her for long enough to decide that she was a threat. One took off, and then the rest of them did in a flurry of wingbeats and Chacal knew she was too far away to make a lunge for them and potentially snag one before it got too high. So she relaxed and stood up, gazing up into the pine tree they chose to roost in and regard her with what she could only assume was surprise and relief. She huffed. She didn't get a meal- but she had learned what that particular grouse ate- and she would make a note of those particular lodgepole pine trees and their potential to lure in a meal for the future. 

So, with an empty stomach (and hand?) she turned, and loped back toward the heart of the packlands, where she might be able to unearth a cache she had supplied recently, and fetch herself a meal.