Each Day Gone By

She tilted her head to hear his name so broken. As if he'd near forgotten it. Alas it was not something she herself would ever wish to forget. Names were important. She dipped her head. "Necrosis Lydia-Red." She stored that to her memory. Sure he was no Incubus, but then no Incubus would ever be someone's slave they'd die first, or enlist the aide of the entire Incubus family. Which worked well back where she'd been born, but thus far she was the only Incubus she knew to be traveling these foreign lands.

She looked to each tree. "If we find a stash of acorns at the bottom of the tree inside we can catch one that way. Better yet take their stash and place it out in the open and wait for them to all try and snag another squirrels stolen cache." The little critters had to eat after all. "If you're capable, begin sniffing for their loot."

The chocolate, ebony and snow furred she-wolf lowered her own head and began the search for acorns and any other nuts the squirrels might have squirreled away. If they found more than one all the better.

She passed three large trees, two saplings, a dead oak tree, one fallen tree, stepped over a branch, some roots and then paused. The scent of acorns strong and coming from the tree directly ahead. With what stealth she could manage she crept up to the tree. Walked around on the right and stopped in her tracks.

At the bottom of the tree a hallow. Inside there were nuts. The bushy tail of one squirrel peaked out while it was shifting through its stores. Without hesitation she snapped her teeth around its tail and pulled it out. It scrabbled and tried to claw at her but she swung her head to one side and then quickly to the next causing the squirrel's head to hit the tree.

She dropped it and placed a foot on it. "Necrosis? This one is for you." Any more would not be so easy. But it wasn't the squirrels she sought most. She only needed a couple to tide her over for a hunt for something larger and more difficult that would actually fill their bellies.