Redtail Rise rise with the sun

Lilia finally got a good roll!

With the deer shifting and changing position as they moved away from the prowling predators, it was almost impossible to tell one from the next. Shifting hooves, tossing heads, flared nostrils- they were identical apart from some slight differences in size, and they all smelled of fear. 

New Snow shifted forward and with decisive movements, she caused the herd to bulge, and slipped in between the herd and an individual. Lilia moved with her, learning what it was she planned, and how to go about it. They pushed the deer away from the others with snaps and snarls, but with each bound it proved that it would not be subdued so easily. If the pair had gathered more members of the pack, it might have been easily enough made into a meal...Lilia was disappointed to see it return to the herd, but she understood the task at hand. 

She took the reins, and dove toward the herd. Her approach was clumsier, and the deer moved in a rotating circle, shunning her attempts to sever one from the group. She moved still, with the group, sending them in a clockwise motion that shifted even faster whenever she lunged toward them. By chance, one deer stumbled- and gave her the opportunity to slip between it and the rest. 

She snapped at its heels and while it kicked out with a hoof that would narrowly graze her cheek, it stumbled again. It veered desperately to return to the herd- but the herd understood, too, that its weakest member had been sought out and separated- they moved away. Lilia uttered a defiant cry and lunged toward the beast again, her confidence buoyed by her luck.