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The presence of the coyotes had at first been a thing to inspire fear.  Here, in the end, it was a thrilling event.  Victory over something that had him labeled as prey felt great.  There was no doubt the boy would have still been dead of dad hadn’t come to help and make it one on one.  Ok, admittedly more like two on one when you considered the young snow leopard joining in.  Um, 3 if you counted that Fang the mongoose had bit it twice?

When Sirius called for him to finish it off Kotori the boy acknowledged there was no way for the coyote to survive now.  It was damaged to a point it couldn’t escape or fight back.  The boy went for its throat and found the thing wasn’t putting much effort into resisting, its energy was spent and its attempts more half-hearted with defeat in its one good eye, blood from the one Fang had bit.  Kotori stepped in and bit at its throat.  Clenching his jaw down hard, feeling blood spilling out and with effort crushing down harder before letting go and witnessing its lifeblood flowing out.  What signs of life had remained in the coyote faded after a few moments.

The coyote's life was over.  Kotori had a long great life ahead.

Looking up excitedly to Sirius, “I killed it!” The boy ran over to Sirius, “You saw?  I really killed it!” Of course, dad wouldn’t have taken his eyes off him during the fight.  The boy had no doubt dad saw it but he was excited and flowing with the energy of a great achievement completed.