Iktome Plains dead souls and a really big globe.

She couldn't process that he might actually finish this, but the battering she'd received spoke differently.  Blood ran down her shoulder blades from the gashes he'd left in her scruff, and that last hit had knocked something more than a couple teeth loose.  She could hear ringing.

But suddenly, he just stopped.  She'd finally put two and two together that maybe she should run, but by the time that happened, he was sobbing something about death.  Someone was dead.

Kiwi shook her head and got unsteadily to her feet, though a sudden rush sent her reeling. Who? She asked, but her voice was shaky, and tears were already starting to run down her own face.  Why did he attack her like that?  The full weight of what had just happened slammed into her, and she took a step back.  Who's dead?