Lion Head Mesa black shuck

Nazli roused when she heard something in the corridor; being a maze of paths, she could not discern with certainty who it was or where precisely they arrived from, until a piece of meat was laid near.

Her little nose fidgeted when she smelled it. She drew away from her sleeping brother and moved with the confidence of the ignorant through the dark, to where the warm body of the woman waited.

There, she grabbed for the meat and worked at it alone, not thinking that her brother might need it more - until it was gone, and Nazli was left to stare greedily up at the woman as if to plead for seconds.