Redtail Rise High Risk, High Reward

Hunting large game was a large ask. It required collaboration and cohesion -- and a wordless kind of intuition for success.

Like Wanderer, Riley became confused in the ensuing moments. Before he could thumbs-up Masque for their contribution, many things happened at once, including the distressful sight of Lilia clamping onto their quarry's very nose.

There were many other moving parts to this hunt, but Riley did not register their contributions -- he only saw as Wanderer surged ahead and seized hindquarter in her teeth, coming away with ragged flesh and a welt of blood dribbling from her chin.

He was aware vaguely of Augur at the beast's shoulders and Ancelin mooring a leg -- so, feeling stupefied but knowing that the longer they stood around the more risk was presented to them, Riley moved. His opportunity was short-lived -- while the elk was preoccupied with the fangs hanging from its nose, Riley went for a hock. He had no hope of stopping the elk from turning any one of them into a grease spot, but his teeth sought to score along the hock and ligaments there, hamstringing the elk from being able to escape, and furthering the bleed inflicted earlier by Wanderer.

He was shaken off by a hard kick to his chest -- with a grunt, Riley sprung back and out of range, circling now for his next window.