Word Count → 313 :: Okay, that works for me.
Willam had no idea how to ride at all. Châtiment had an entirely different purpose. He was more of a work horse though he was proving to be a companion to Willam. Châtiment's original purpose was simply to pull a travois so that entire carcasses of large prey could be hauled back to where the rest of la Chemin waited for the hunt to be over with. Willam was typically the one to hitch him so he had taken to following her about, even when she had fled la Chemin. She had come to appreciate his presence, a constant reminder of home.
Willam glanced back towards the other female as she spoke of what had distracted Willam's attention. "They are, especially their efficiency." She hadn't witnessed them being unable to catch what they were after. But then again she didn't spend all of her time watching them and studying them. "But they can be bothersome when hunting." She had noticed some that acted ravenous and were quick to swoop down upon a kill, especially if the kill was left alone and unwatched. It had taught Willam to start covering the kills after they were made.
"Look at that, it made it." Willam pulled out the eaglet that had actually managed to stay aloft once it had left the nest. Willam couldn't help smiling as she watched it. The way that it had struggled at first she didn't think that it would actually make it. Not to mention that it didn't really look quite as big as others of its kind that she had seen. "I wasn't certain if it was going to make it with the way it started off." Of course the eaglet hadn't really gone all that far, just from the nest to a nearby branch but ti was still an amazing thing to watch it even make it that far.
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