Emberwood ghost

theirs was a dance that drove wounded caribou into forest clearing; 

where his broad paws broke the earth, hers followed. from one side she blooded the creature, while sun eater kept the swinging antlers on himself, lunging to spike the blinded side with gouting teeth.

her persistence ground away at the caribou as water upon a stone. single slate eye burned with feverish approval as his teeth struck toward jugular, claws raking the earth as a counterbalance.

caribou heaved; sun eater hung to its flesh.