purge this poison from my veins

She would look to her son and he would look to her as her words rushed over him and broke the trance he had seemed to have fallen under. Patiently her eyes would follow her son as he plugged forward, repeating her words as if he needed to confirm them for himself. A slow smile would slip over her features as she watched her son with a growing sense of pride. He would dive into the underbrush, following the very blatant trail and for a moment she would simply stand there smiling after him before bounding after him. Long limbs would catch him in no time but she would linger behind the boy, allowing him to track the blood for himself. The monster was panicked, stupid in it's fear. It didn't try and stop the bleeding, nor did it try and throw it's hunters off it's track. Typical prey. She would grin as she followed her son. It was only a few minutes before they arrived upon the blood soaked ground upon which their prey lay. She was breathing shallow, gasping and choking as her precious life blood drained from her hind leg. Dione must have only nicked the artery, usually they died quicker... "You may grant her mercy and end her life by ripping her throat. Or you may let her slowly bleed out and suffer for the sins she has committed to these lands..." Dione would murmur softly as she took a seat a short distance away from their prey, leaving the choice up to her son.