Ab Initio Mundi

The dream world she was living in began to crumble as an earthquake brought disaster to it, turning the entire universe that her mind had created into darkness. In actuality, it was her father's incessant nudging and shoving that caused her to awake from her slumber. Domina stumbled out of the den in a stupor, even going so far as missing a step with a front paw. Luckily, she was able to catch herself before falling face first on the earth and making a fool of herself in front of the siblings. She settled in line with the others and examined the gore of a presentation that their father had provided with half-lidded eyes. Having not woken full up, she blinked hard a few times to get the fog out of her vision.

As her father explained the guts to the siblings, Domina unconsciously let out a soft yawn in attempts to get oxygen flow to her brain. Despite the struggle of waking up, this lesson was actually pretty interesting for the lass. When Elias sliced open the coyote's stomach to expose the rancid insides of partially digested hare, she found the smell strong- but not overly sickening. The pup's nostrils worked as they further took in the pungent aroma. Fascinated by the anatomy lesson that her father was giving, her ears perked forth as life sparked in her eyes.

With the command of her father to dig in, she'd happily oblige. With a wag of her tail, Domina would make her approach after Actaea and Casso, eyeing up the innards for an ideal piece. She took a portion of the large intestine much like Actaea, but found it to be quite stretchy and tough to easily tear away from the rest. To assure the meat-noodle tore away, she placed a paw on either side of the intestine that poured out the sides of her muzzle and pulled upwards and away. With a sickening, slick squish and slapping noise, the chunk of intestine broke free but not cleanly. A line of blood splattered up her muzzle, across an eye and came to a stop just before the ear opposite to the bloodied eye. A smirk cross her lips as she trotted with her prize over to her father to show him her handiwork. Sure, it wasn't cleanly obtained- but wasn't getting dirty a part of it?