to deer or not to deer
Tea / Bonus
07-02-2022, 02:37 AM
Tor had had his eye on the herd of deer for some time, waiting for a target to present itself. He could probably take one down by himself of course. It's not like they far outweighed his scrawny almost-yearling body still by a whole lot or anything. In fact, he could probably take one of the biggest bucks, except that the bucks had all dropped their antlers for the winter and he wasn't sure which were which anymore. A big deer, anyway, he could totally take one. But he had started to learn the futility of throwing himself into a hunt without thinking, because he had wasted a lot of time and energy on hunts where he just ended up frustrated in the end without anything to show for it and had had to go take his frustration out in brawling with his siblings.
Tor frowned, squinting hard at the other side of the herd. Far away from them, so much smaller... was that a buck? Look at the horns and the color, it had to be one right? And small enough that he'd be able to take it easily, without risking it getting away. He moved around the herd in a lumbering stalk, getting closer and closer, ready to pounce... and then paused, and squinted harder. What the fuck? That... that wasn't even a deer. That was a wolf, with deer antlers on.
After a moment he decided that she must have tied the deer antlers on to get close enough to hunt the deer... maybe? But she was just sitting there staring at them like they were the most amazing thing she'd ever seen. They were just deer. Damn it she was going to ruin his hunt wasn't she? Well, he wasn't going to let her. He'd make her hunt his way if she was going to hunt, so she couldn't mess it up, that's what he'd do. He could use a second body around anyway. Scowling, he marched up to her. "Are you planning on hunting or just sitting here ruining everyone else's hunt?" he "whispered" scathingly. He wasn't very good at being quiet so his "whisper" was still pretty loud, but not so much the deer noticed. "Or are you just so scared of them you were going to chicken out?" The youth's voice dripped with scorn. The best way of getting someone on board with doing things your way, he'd learned, was to make them so they had to take the dare or look like a chicken, and no one wanted to look like a chicken so they'd rush into the dare without thinking. Of course, he knew that because everyone was always doing it to him but he hadn't really caught on to that particular fact yet.
Word count: 463
Total word count: 763
Tor frowned, squinting hard at the other side of the herd. Far away from them, so much smaller... was that a buck? Look at the horns and the color, it had to be one right? And small enough that he'd be able to take it easily, without risking it getting away. He moved around the herd in a lumbering stalk, getting closer and closer, ready to pounce... and then paused, and squinted harder. What the fuck? That... that wasn't even a deer. That was a wolf, with deer antlers on.
After a moment he decided that she must have tied the deer antlers on to get close enough to hunt the deer... maybe? But she was just sitting there staring at them like they were the most amazing thing she'd ever seen. They were just deer. Damn it she was going to ruin his hunt wasn't she? Well, he wasn't going to let her. He'd make her hunt his way if she was going to hunt, so she couldn't mess it up, that's what he'd do. He could use a second body around anyway. Scowling, he marched up to her. "Are you planning on hunting or just sitting here ruining everyone else's hunt?" he "whispered" scathingly. He wasn't very good at being quiet so his "whisper" was still pretty loud, but not so much the deer noticed. "Or are you just so scared of them you were going to chicken out?" The youth's voice dripped with scorn. The best way of getting someone on board with doing things your way, he'd learned, was to make them so they had to take the dare or look like a chicken, and no one wanted to look like a chicken so they'd rush into the dare without thinking. Of course, he knew that because everyone was always doing it to him but he hadn't really caught on to that particular fact yet.
Word count: 463
Total word count: 763