Ouroboros Spine In the early morning

Valiant laughed — "You seemed pretty agile to me," he told her, but that was as far as his argument went. He supposed that a lot of hunting was luck, and then that thought didn't sit quite well with him. He pushed it from his mind, but found himself unable to focus on the water.

"Thanks for showing me your trick," he told her, shifting his gaze back to Ajei. "I think I might leave it to you, all the same. I'm better off lookin' for a bigger target, 'f'I wanna snag anything."

He shook a few stray water droplets from his pelt.

"I'll be seein' you," he said, his mind already in the woods.