Cedar Sweep From the wight lying in the barrow

Finally, after what had seemed like an eternity, the deer gave up on life and Wraen was able to release her hold and give her jaw joints a rest. They did feel stiff and she did not know, if you could get cramps in temporal muscles, but the cramp-like feeling in the region of her head and forehead gave that impression. 

"Yup, let's eat now," she agreed with Niamh. "We can then leave one of us to guard and call the rest to have a meal here as well. It's not that far from the copse and it is always lighter to bring the meat back inside bellies than dragging it along," she explained her reasoning. Then turned to Elfie: "You can let go of the deer now. It won't run anywhere." She used the same light-teasing tone the other adult had. They had done the job and a little humour could not hurt.