Baa Baa not-black sheep

Fern’s muscles are taut and she feels like a cobra ready to strike. Kotori’s mischievous grin earns him an amused smirk before the gray girl turns her attention back to the sheep on it perch. With a lot of noise and falling pebbles, the brown wolf initiates the hunt, startling the large, horned sheep and driving it down toward her. Aqua eyes track the animal, missing the flashy, sometimes frantic, descent of Kotori. It comes closer and closer, until…

Cloven hooves strike the solid rock floor, ready to dash away from the charging wolf and straight toward the waiting Fern. Gray form springs out from her hiding place, startling the horned sheep and causing it skid to a stop and roll its wide eyes around wildly as it tryies to find an escape route. Fern darts in, causing the sheep to raise up on its back legs, lowering its horned head to attack. Sharp teeth bite deep into the creature’s back right leg and the gray girl feels a thrum of excitement sound through her. Until the sheep’s head comes down.

She has been so focused on hobbling the animal that Fern missed the way the sheep had squared its horns with her body. It isn’t until there is a sharp crack and blinding pain surges through her right hip that the gray girl realizes she messed up. Stars dance and spin in her vision as Fern works to regain her senses and finish the hunt.


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