Jade Fern Grove coffin run

He dug, he pulled, he broke roots and he cut the earth with his claws, and eventually Reki pulled free some piece of bone planted there; rotten bone with very little that could be salvaged. As his head came up he caught the eye of a stranger who happened to be near, who he had not expected.

Immediately the boy dropped the prize and stood over it defiantly, protective of his latest meal even though it wasn't the most nutritious thing. It would ease his empty belly for a while if he could eat it, though.

The boy bristled, he was stiff-legged and observant in the moment, but otherwise looked quite pathetic as he stared down the stranger woman.