Redtail Rise XLIV

just like that, their struggle was ended.

augur's sides heaved as he settled himself near their kill. a lick of his jaws and a flick of his tail signalled that she should eat first.

in some ways, he still thought of her as one of the young, powerful in her own right but not yet matured.

and so automatically he deferred to this in her, a need for flesh that outweighed his own.