Redtail Rise III

augur picked up her offering and snapped it down quickly. he crooned in her direction, ears flattened with pleasure. 

she spoke. he now knew these sounds as words. and he knew the difference of her voice from that of the others. her sounds were round and blurred.

he knew fight and hunt. augur tossed his head and pawed at the rabbit, pretending to bat it across the snow. but his true calling were the ruminants that walked redtail. and he turned his large head to look for them now.