Dinner For Ten? [Inner Circle Hunt]

To be honest, Regulus was a bit excited. He’d been hunting before, but he’d never tried one of these things. He’d never thought of them as food before. So when his mother’s voice had soothed through the Estuary, he’d taken off at a lope. It didn’t take the vibrant Adravendi long to arrive at his mother’s side, and as he slowed to a halt, he gave her shoulder the customary, habitual nuzzle before lowering his haunches to the ground and flicking his thickly furred tail to wrap around his haunches. As he followed her mismatched gaze to the two lumps of sleek seal brown fur and skin, with their strange bodies and odd back ends, he too looked around at the playing field.

He guessed there would be someone needed to go between the beasts and the sea, but he was willing to wait on his mother’s plans for the hunt. She was the leader, and the one who had called for the hunt in the first place. And he figured she would lay out the plan when everyone else had arrived to hear it. So he sat quietly, practicing that inner peace thing his elders had always been hammering into his head. Stay calm, conserve your energy for the real action.