Redtail Rise XLIV

caribou, on their way to the valley where they would grow summerfat.

many calves would be with them now, and more to come.

there was abundance to be had. 

augur strode through the night noiselessly, scenting their number, their strength.

perhaps wolverine and he might test them.

shoulders flexed; he leapt a fallen branch, and then the huntlead was hurtling toward the center of the herd.

the air filled with startled bleating.