Wapun Meadow pictoratus

follow he did.

she did not hasten.

he closed upon her in five paces and hurled her slight body to the ground.

she gave fight but the roman knelt upon her, buffeted her paws away with his hard muzzle, seized her right wrist in his jaws.

germanicus broke it as if it were a branch in a windfall and in the same thought he struck her into unconsciousness

a moment to catch himself.

and then he would ensconce the witch in the valley, placing her ironically into what he did not know was the natal den of ursus.

the footmarks would have to be wiped, the stirred grass soothed.

akavir had not said she must be delivered. germanicus carried the proof in his jaws: blood staining the eldritch pelt from the witch herself.

as for her mortal form, germanicus meant to make an example of her before mars.