Blacktail Deer Plateau PACK HUNT: Prancer was Good Eatin'

The male lead joined her and Kesuk on the right. He was the head of the hunt, but Saena pressed on ahead, at least until Koda loped forward once they were in position. In a hunt there was no place for hesitation, and so the moment he rumbled she shot out of the cover like a set of red bullets: four small and one very long, the only parts of her that stood out from the snow.

The herd scattered, pinched by the parties on both sides, and there—in the middle—a doe was shoved aside. Saena's eyes locked onto the deer at about the same moment Dante's run became a focused charge, and she picked up her own pace in hopes of catching it between them, where it would be unable to run.

She couldn't see Koda or Finn from where she was, but she could see Kesuk... who, unlike the rest of them, wasn't going after the deer while their window of opportunity remained open. Instead, the older female peeled away from the group, back toward the hill where Blue Willow and Valtyr followed. "What the fuck," Saena muttered to herself, but she was closing in on the deer, and had no more time to wonder why Kesuk wasn't helping the hunters like she was supposed to.

Saena was in range of the doe, and she leapt, jaws agape... but instead of catching the deer's leg, the juvenile was caught in the jaw by an unlucky sudden kick as the doe unexpectedly whirled. Her vision exploded into white and black spots and she stumbled and fell, yelping loudly as she went down.