Dawnlark Plains "you will burn and burn out;

AW, deerstalker (scavenging!) #8 (prey: moose, using hunting bonus to change this to mule deer to more accurately fit the setting, failed)

The deerstalker was vaguely surprised -- vaguely only because she came from a land where the ground was always covered in ice -- to see that the open field was still covered in a light powdering of snow, even now as summer approached and the days grew warmer. She'd not expected to find much by the way of game out here -- at least not much more than the birds and small animals that were scattered along the Plains and its fringes, where the treeline began again. 

But a dark shape on the horizon caught the she-dog's attention, beckoning her to trot closer in investigation. The black blip morphed into the shape of a fallen animal, a large and stately mule buck with a full rack of antlers. A gathering of coyotes feasted on the stag, snapping and snarling over the meat but they hadn't noticed Imaq yet. The she-shepherd deliberated silently, knowing she had only moments before they did and she lost the element of surprise, trying to determine if she was capable of chasing the...one, two, three, four coyotes off on her own.