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And here we go! Jeez, I wrote a book, and 150 more words than when I wrote this by hand.
Word Count: 532. Worth 5 points.
Hanna walked quietly through the cool, damp forests of Dahlia de Mai, just meandering about through the morning mists. She knew vaguely where she was at; after all, it hadn't been that long since this land had been her home. She still felt a great love for the Dahlian lands, and perhaps she always would. It was a shame she had had problems with Haku; she found calling out at the borders to be somewhat rude and if she had been there alone, Hanna would have waited for someone to happen upon her rather than to do so.
But in this case, Hanna had arrived with escort. Mew was resting in her den, as far as Hanna knew, and so the femme had left that place to find some food for them and to take a break from her duties, which were basically to keep her niece relatively quiet and to provide companionship to her, as well as simply being close when the pups were due to come, since the mother-to-be was concerned that things would go south with her delivery, as they had last time.
For once, Hanna was in her lupus form, though she still had her belt looped over her back, knives hanging about her belly. They might not do her any good if she found someone who challenged her being there, someone who hadn't got the memo that there was a temporary visitor, but she still felt better having them on her person.
A movement to the right caught Hanna's attention and her mind immediately stopped considering that, eyes coming to rest on a cottontail buck. The rabbit was moving slowly away from her, grazing on the tender grass, and she wished for a moment that Tobias was overhead instead of visiting familiar haunts. Then she chided herself for her laziness and shrugged the belt quietly from her body. Lowering her form she crept toward the unsuspecting creature.
After waiting for just the right moment, Hanna struck, feeling the rabbit's tender flesh give way beneath her fangs. With a final squeak and a violent shake of her jaws, the spinal cord was ripped asunder, and the creature seemed to acquiesce to it's fate.Hanna concentrated and shifted up to two legs, intending on gutting the now-dead bunny, but then realised that if she were bringing the food to Mew, as had been her intent since seeing the leporid, the heart and liver would be an added source of nutrition for her niece. So instead of following through with her plan, she simply grasped the buck by his hind legs.
She didn't immediately turn back towards Wolfville; the rabbit would keep for a bit. She continued on the way she'd been going, coming in just a few more strides to the clearing by the cemetary, in full view of the church. She didn't let her mind wander to the fact that the church was where Slay and Cercelee had been staying, but walked about the headstones, pausing to read the names on some of them. Bit by bit, she came to the one that seemed to always be her involuntary destination and stood staring up at the Virgin Mary.
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