It was a favorite haunt of his, the forests of Ethereal Eclipse. Different were they than the woods of the north - thicker, denser, with larger trees that blotted out the sun and left a thin but pleasant green glow on the forest floor. It was also better for concealing him - although he stood out sharply against a light, sunny field, in the dark forests, he blended perfectly into the shadows.
Paws barely touched the ground as he shifted his weight from haunch to haunch to shoulder to shoulder - each step carefully calculated, constricted pupils slitted in concentration and focused on a single mouse. To the observer, the mouse was camouflaged - its brown coat against brown nettles and leaves made it seem a leaf itself. But to Element's heightened sense of smell and hearing, he could tell the small creature apart from the foliage easily.
Upon nearing the mouse close enough downwind, he wiggled his haunches slightly, bunching them up - and pounced, a clean swoop from his spot right into the creature in question. As he neatly killed it with a blow to the neck, he began to eat. A perfect stalk was perfected over time, he thought as he tucked into his meal, and his was almost perfect. Silent, unseen, not scented until the last moments; his prey hardly ever knew what had hit them.
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