Ouroboros Spine which I must do

For @Rodyn

Since his lesson with @Valiant, the young hunter's confidence had grown tremendously. Where once he may have hesitated or backed out, he found he could now be decisive in his approach.

Most mornings he would rise bright and early now, slipping from @Raindrop's watchful gaze to search for the day's prey. More often than not it was his usual rodents, grabbed from the dewey grass or on occasion dug out from a burrow.. when he managed to track them down, he would now return home with birds big - or moreso medium, and small.

In all his time out and about, he was yet to see an ungulate.. until now. Stood some distance away, Ludovic eyed a female mule deer and her fawn with wide-eyed wonder. He had understood from speaking to older wolves that most hooved animals seemed to prefer coming out at dawn and dusk, which was likely why he hadn't seen them so close until now. The deer and her fawn, who was old enough to have lost his spots, were both much too big and likely too fast for Ludovic to handle.. but it didn't stop him from looking.

He was far too nervous to move. He could tell from their twitching ears and the eyes that never seemed to still.. if he made the slightest move, the quietest noise, they would run off.