Redtail Rise the premature burial

Ashlar again cowers from the scene, but to her satisfaction, Ratio complies. he kills the kits swiftly and efficiently, and at his question is about to snort and snap one up when Tulimaq speaks.

mmhm, Avicus agrees. one for each of them. she thinks, perversely, that she may not have let the healer dine even if he had stayed. one must have the stomach for it, after all—and she won't have the meat wasted from a belly overturning.

she takes a tiny body for herself and steps back, devouring it quickly, the tiny bones reduced to grit between her teeth.

Ratio had passed the test. she looks upon him approvingly, tongue running over her chops. puhh' thah' in a cachhe, she orders the man, jerking her chin toward the mother fox.

then, with one parting look toward Tulimaq, she leaves.