Laughing till they die

She had found a decent cave within the canyon after her day of travel and exploration and after hunting a bit of dinner she had settled down there for the night, deciding that would be better than trying to go all the way back up to Boreas in the middle of the night - especially not with the number of predators she had run into. It seemed like everywhere she went around here she was running into some kind of predator. Saber cats, wild dogs, a bear... what next? As if to answer her question, she woke up to the distinctive sound of hyenas and their weird laughing bark.

She blinked open her eyes and looked up toward the entrance of the cave where she had left the remnants of her meal from the night before. She was curled up toward the back of this small cave so it seemed like maybe they hadn't noticed her yet or maybe they just didn't care. It was hard to tell how many of them there were from where she was laying but she certainly wasn't going to lay around until they noticed her. Acantha got up and shook out her pelt before letting loose a deep growl with her hackles bristling and snarl pulling across her lips. That got the attention of a couple of them and their heads popped up, a couple of them skittering away as she ran forward toward them. There was strength in numbers though and they immediately started attacking back instead of running off like she hoped they would.

Acantha Elpis Stavros