Second Chances

Cold air surrounded the southern lands as the woman trekked through the grove. The smell of the berries that were now rotting and turning old and mushy surrounded her nostrils and caused her to gag slightly. The trees and bushes were beginning to lose their leaves and scatter around the landscape and Yurella smiled.

She continued to walk and admire the scenery when something caught her attention. A chubby hare had jumped out of its burrow and wandered off, making it a good opportunity to hunt. The dame licked her maw and stayed in the shadows, going low and stalking her meal. When it was close enough, she leapt forward and pounced, grabbing the hare and shaking life from its body.

But, before she could dive into her kill, she happened to see something out of the corner of her eye and when she got a closer look, it made her heart break.

A pup, a green girl who was skin and bone was hiding under a tree. She grabbed her kill and approached, dropping her meal a couple feet from the girl as she backed away and sat down a couple yards, showing that she wasnt going to harm her.