02-13-2025, 11:27 PM
It wasn't uncommon for mere days to feel like another lifetime, when your entire life was only one hundred and eighty of them especially, but wow did it feel like another lifetime since she had been in the glade. She was still hunched down in the undergrowth, still angling to get a meal, and yet nothing else was the same as it had been. Mainly because, beautiful as this glad was, it certainly was nothing like the glade she had been hunting in not so long ago. She was somewhere else, somewhere she was certain she'd never been, and yet with prey so abundant it was rather hard to care about the how and why of being here. She simply was, and she was definitely not going to go hungry, and that was all that mattered.
Of course, getting distracted by thoughts was bad for hunting, and hearing a rustle she panicked as she realized the prey was getting away. It was just a pride thing now, she didn't require this to survive, but this was all part of getting better. And so, far too frantically, she launched herself out of the bushes to pin down her prey.
Except, well, it was larger than a squirrel.....or even a rabbit!
It took a moment, and a growing sense of horror, but Cinders quickly realized she was standing atop a cub who she'd pinned down. Well, cub was the wrong word, he was smaller than her but he looked to be about her age....after all she was rather big for her age all things considered.
"Sorry! I uh....mistook you for a squirrel?" was all Cinders could sheepishly offer in reply as she scurried off of him, face burning with shame, because if ever there was a reason you didn't zone out then this was it! Though, if nothing else, this at least proved she might be ready to move onto rabbits?
"Are you alright? I didn't hurt you did I?" Cinders asked more worriedly, creeping back over to check on him, while he wasn't much smaller than her she had been launching to kill after all.
@Einn
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Of course, getting distracted by thoughts was bad for hunting, and hearing a rustle she panicked as she realized the prey was getting away. It was just a pride thing now, she didn't require this to survive, but this was all part of getting better. And so, far too frantically, she launched herself out of the bushes to pin down her prey.
Except, well, it was larger than a squirrel.....or even a rabbit!
It took a moment, and a growing sense of horror, but Cinders quickly realized she was standing atop a cub who she'd pinned down. Well, cub was the wrong word, he was smaller than her but he looked to be about her age....after all she was rather big for her age all things considered.
"Sorry! I uh....mistook you for a squirrel?" was all Cinders could sheepishly offer in reply as she scurried off of him, face burning with shame, because if ever there was a reason you didn't zone out then this was it! Though, if nothing else, this at least proved she might be ready to move onto rabbits?
"Are you alright? I didn't hurt you did I?" Cinders asked more worriedly, creeping back over to check on him, while he wasn't much smaller than her she had been launching to kill after all.
@Einn
the staff team luvs u
