Tiger Food?

The summer day is mild and the rains have even paused to allow the sun to peek its head out. Haydée happily splashes through the big puddles of water that have been left behind, her body is covered in mud and the little pup could not be happier. Joyful laughter fills the air as she goes, jumping from puddle to puddle with all the happiness of just being… alive. Danger stalks the small girl as she plays; death watches her with wide hungry eyes from the tree line nearby.

But Haydée does not notice, she does not even give danger a second thought since she is in pack lands. No one would dare to hurt her here… right? Hunger makes the large tiger care less about borders and more about the gnawing hole that is its stomach. It is a born hunter, sliding through the shadows that the trees throw with all the easy of lifetime spent in them. As the small pup jumps into a huge puddle, she unknowingly puts her back toward the waiting predator and gives it the invitation that the stalking predator needs to strike.

Pain laces the girl’s neck as the tiger rushes out from hiding, its skinny sides fully visible to the world, and grabs hold of her scruff. Haydée screams in fear and pain as the creature turns around, ready to race away from the wolves land with the pup in his jaws. Tears stream down her cheeks as she screams for her mother, terrified where moments before, she had been laughing with joy.


"Haydée Kedieo"