Dancing in the Deep Freeze

*Amaranth* · 02-13-2021, 01:19 PM

When the dogs began to dig Amaranth took that as her cue. She leaned down to the entrance of the nearest burrow and let out a long, rumbling growl as she began to scrabble at the frozen earth, but kept her focus trained towards the borrow entrance between herself and Ed. The bobcat stood poised and still by his entrance, waiting for one of the dumb rodents to mistake it as safe passage. She was distantly aware of a flurry of motion across the way from them, and hoped it meant one of their 'companions' had made a kill. She didn't have time to verify, because a white-pelted blur darted out into the light on her left. Mara sprang sideways, feet slipping beneath her as she scrambled after. Her teeth just barely snapped onto a hind limb, but the instant she felt purchase she flung her head upwards, sending the hare cartwheeling into the air above her. With a leap she caught it on the downfall and dispatched it with a quick shake.

"Mara!" She looked up to see Ed with his claws embedded in a hare of his own, but the exclamation wasn't to congratulate himself. His eyes were trained over her shoulder and she spun, giving chase to a hare that fled from the initial harried entrance once she'd left it. She cursed under her breath and surged forward, nimble paws carrying her over a fallen log and vaulting a snow-covered rock before descending on the hare a heartbeat before it was able to dive into a tangle of dead vegetation. Another shake, and it was done. Panting, she carried the hare back to deposit it with the other two and looked up to see how the other half of their impromptu hunting party had fared.
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