Blacktail Deer Plateau all the poisonous venom is seeping through the honey badger's body

Her senses began to dim—not just her vision but all of them. She felt numbness creeping over her body and the sounds of her natural surroundings faded into muffled silence. Honey Badger could still taste and smell, which she only knew because her nose and mouth were filled with the flavor of death. It was repugnant.

Her electric yellow eyes slowly became glassy as the world faded to black. She didn't entirely lose consciousness, though. Honey Badger clung to those last few frayed threads that attached her to this corporeal world. She was even aware of it when someone approached. One odor of death was traded for another when warm breath washed over her face with the whisper of, "Hello."

Honey Badger's entire body went rigid. Her spirit screamed in defiance. Yet there was nothing she could do for herself anymore. She was going, going... almost gone. The only thing she could manage to do was curl her lip and stare blindly up into the face of death. She was actually glad to go out this way, at the teeth of an enemy, rather than pathetically succumbing to a silent killer.