+3 :: This takes place in The Dampwoods near Inferni. Time is just after dawn. Hopefully someone I don't currently have a thread with will reply.
Since his rise to Aquila, Ezekiel had seen the death of a child and reacted by doing what his sister had suggested—chase away the wolves. While he did not find the concept deplorable, the reasoning behind it was. With Maki dead, the golden coyote was left feeling sickened by his inability to have kept the boy safe. Gabriel had been little help, with his gruff and blunt reassurance that nothing could be done. Frustrated even further by his father’s behavior, Ezekiel had taken off to the forest. He had not left Inferni since his ascension and now desired nothing more than to get away from the clan for some time. Until he was reassured that Halo and the other girls could hold the clan without him, he would not go further than that.
Viggo had been left to wander, as Ezekiel went to hunt. He was not incapable of using his four-legged form, but he found the results more favorable with the bow. This was why he had been perched in a tree since before dawn, listening. A doe and her fawn had come by as the first light crept through the wood, but the coyote had not taken the kill-shot. He hunted with the same responsibility he had been taught by his elders; kill the weak and kill the male. A doe could repopulate what was taken. A buck, while certain part of the equation, was replicable.
Ibsen had followed him but since gone off to find something more interesting than spending his morning in a tree, and so Ezekiel was alone. He had been waiting for a buck to come by, but now as hunger turned sharp, he began to look for other solutions. A plump rabbit turned out to be his breakfast, shot from above. Ezekiel had been careful with his aim and taken it through the skull—he despised the rabbit-scream and had no desire to hear it. The coyote jump-fell out of the tree and retrieved his arrow. Once clean it rejoined the others, and the combat knife went to work severing the head and the tiny heart from the rabbit. Archaic as it was, the practice helped calm the hunter, who dug a shallow pit for both and once buried began to eat the rabbit, fur and all.
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