Kildeer Rest [m] rain bear

it all happened so fast!
red leaf hadn't entirely expected him to say yes. the relief and brief wave of excitement soon turned to shock and doe-eyed horror as the pair close in on the herd. there were so many of them, all much more alive than she had ever seen them before.
she does as instinct tells her and begins to scope them out, watching and waiting at the heel for a good target. there are not yet calves, only pregnant mothers; those, she assumed, would be the most protected. she only notices the buck after cen points him out, and before she can do much to react, her husband is charging expertly — sending the healthy caribou scattering in waves of a frantic stampede and leaving them with the elder.
cen makes the first move. red leaf shudders as she hears the crunch of his jaws, the panicked bleating of the poor creature. it is her turn — she knows not what to do.
after a long moment of staring like a deer in a pair of headlights, red leaf makes her move; her own strike lands upon the shoulder of the great beast, teeth tearing skin as she tries to prevent it from moving to its feet. she backs away far sooner than she likely should have; she did not want to be the one to kill it.
tail tucked between her thighs, she braces herself for cen's inevitable disappointment.