Word Count → 301
It didn’t take very long to find the hogs’ trail. Wayne weaved through the grass, ears pricked for the sound of grass or twigs crepitating, able to inhale the beasts’ strong scent with every breath. Head down, gait brisk, he looked more like a hound dog than anything else. Half-drooped ears lifted when he heard some grunts from ahead, and he quickly looked to Dixie-May. She’d heard the same thing and was now slipping knives out—larger ones than he was used to seeing on her. His head cocked before she waved the blades at him with a grin, and Wayne chuckled. He came wordlessly to her side as she crept forward to peek through the foliage.
Sure enough, there were a few pigs rooting around in the dirt. His eyes drifted over the smaller young and their antics before a nose brushed gently against his ear, his friend’s voice murmuring to point out a scarred sow. He followed her gaze, noting the deep cuts, before waiting for her to make or order a move.
The aggressive park scattered the hogs, though the chosen sow was impeded by her injuries and wasn’t able to catch up with the bunch. Dixie leaped from their bush and growling to get the animal’s attention.
Wayne snuck around through the bushes, his secui frame making more noise than he would have liked, though the sound of crashing undergrowth was all around them with the retreat of the other pigs. He stopped, poised, judging the distance between him and the hog, before running out from the vegetation and barreling into the scarred animal. They both tumbled with the force of the impact, and Wayne tried to keep the animal pinned down so Dixie could get a clean kill with the knife. It thrashed underneath him, squalling.
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