Ouroboros Spine the one who devours

she knows of the ugly scene that a mountain lion can create when hungry. shikoba was thankful for the fact that she was not there to see the body of the girl, fearful of what may have struck her heart at that moment. she comes to look back to Rodyn.

"they are devils," she would come to tell him, "never underestimate them." for their hunger, their power, and their ability to kill. it was the law of nature that things must be killed for the other to survive, shikoba has known this all her life. yet the fact that something was able to topple a wolf secretly haunted her at night. they were not the top species in these wilds, perhaps they never were meant to be.

"we cannot risk our safety with spring so near. there will be too many mouths to feed if we are picked off or weakened." moonglow was going to welcome a [hopefully] healthy batch of puppies into the world once spring would come. and shikoba knew that they would grow their teeth sooner than later and require meat. even more so, mothers would require meat to make milk.

yet, was it safer to be sitting ducks and allow for the mountain lion to draw possibly closer and closer to their home? "if rodyn were to choose," she would come to drawl out to him, "what would he do about the cat?"