Hoshor Plains If you only met my eyes

'Mac managed to lower his own head as Minnow offered a prayer of thanks for the doe's sacrifice, his tongue hanging from his maw as he continued to heave breaths. After a few moments, he lifted his maw and closed his mouth, having had sufficient time to regain his strength.

"She put up... a good fight," he offered, "I really thought I'd lost her there for a minute."

He stepped up to the carcass and looked it over. A clean kill, for wolf predation, that was. That was the way of life - one life had to be sacrificed so that another may continue one, whether plant or animal. Still, taking that of another, especially one so vivacious and young, was never easy.

"Oh! Thanks, but it wasn't just me, you know. I definitely couldn't have done it without you," Sumac replied, grinning from ear to ear. 

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"Well, nothing to it, I guess," he continued, bending down to the doe's underbelly. With deft fangs, he sliced through the skin and began to dress the kill by removing the innards, which for a human would be discarded - not so for his kind. These choice, nutrient-rich bits he offered to Minnow. "Ma always said ladies go first," he said with a boyish grin and a bow.