Soon, Zalen felt the heat of Xy’rin at his side, and he knew immediately that she smelled it as he did. But instead of wariness, he could sense her demeanor change to one of focused excitement; it was obvious that she wanted that hunt. He glanced over at her just as she flitted her golden eyes to him, and his heart skipped a beat; her eagerness was contagious and he suddenly felt himself go into stalk mode. Nudging back against her then, and rubbing his thickly furred neck down her side, he began to move forward into the tree-line, his pad-falls making nary a sound as he slithered through the trees like a snake made of shadow.
He had not hunted such large game in a long time, in fact, it had been more than a year, for in the not too distant past he had been feeding himself on yearling fawns and smaller game. And New Dawn had just been established, so there had yet to be a pack hunt, so all the members had taken care of their own stomachs, sharing what leftovers they had with the less skilled. In fact, the other day when he and Titania had hunted the goats, that had been only the second time since his adolescence that he had hunted as a group. So this hunt… it meant something to him; it was like he was coming of age all over again.
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