Golden Fleece

She’d taken his invitation, and he waited as she gauged the timing and sprang. The flock scattered, and the ram, after failing to flee with his fellows, gave and bolted toward the better-hidden man. Cairo counted the strides, then launched forward, spooking the ram.

He covered the distance in a leap, head snatching low and his jaws clamping on the beast’s foreleg, severing one of the tendons and further laming the creature. The ram staggered and tripped, but sallied and sought to run. But it was hobbled by injuries, one on the hock, and now a fresh one on the opposite foreleg, and its flight was slower than it surely would have liked. It was in full panic now, fleeing blindly on flat ground.

Cairo surged after it, working to get ahead and drive it into an offshoot he knew was a dead end and curved upward overhead, preventing any sheeply wall-climbing tricks.

Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Hear" ---- Think