Wild Berry Meadow Dulce Laborum

Zaahira is welcome to jump in at any point, gonna keep this one moving! Horses welcome to pp the squad/Ra as needed

He stilled their party with a snap of an ear. Months of tracking and at last the hoofed beasts grazed in Semer-wati’s eyes, tails cracking like whips in the air and taut muscles edged in golden light, gleaming like lures. Three mares and a foal. There was no stallion to guard them. Rashepses eyed their gaits for lameness.

The filly would be quick to eliminate, but a kicking mother would give them more trouble than she’s worth. They would not catch the mares on the straights. He looked instead for ways to slow them. “Drive them into the trees,” the king commanded his squadron and broke into a lope.

The hunt spun out across the flatland.

Rashepses concentrated all his attention on the nearest mare. He ignored the mother and younger animal that breached within his party’s attack range and followed his mare through her contortions, letting up when she kicked and recouping with a snap of his jaws in the air, drawing inexorably closer.