Keep Your Eye On The Ball

A grin spread slowly across her maw like a coiling snake. "Of course you can child," she purred. "Do you know how to kill a coyote? I'm afraid we'll have to deal with the mother before we can get to the pups." Her golden eyes swept over the child's face trying to ascertain if she was the sort to run crying or if she had that dark pride in herself and her role as an apex predator. To see the world as her's to play with. Pyralis always had trouble finding partners for coyote ball. A true tragedy.

"If you want, would you want to play coyote ball with me? In order to play we need one of the pups." Pyralis turned her attention back to the den opening where she started digging furiously to widen the opening. The mother coyote panic and lunged forward. Pyralis' jaws launched down seizing the top of the coyote's muzzle, just across the bridge of its jaw. It yelped and flailed as Pyralis drug it completely out of the den.