- Feb 23, 2023
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It is a normal day, a normal hunting patrol. Most of it had been successful, Bluepool herself boasted a pretty good catch. It wasn't a rabbit, but the thrush she had left buried back a ways to retrieve later was still plenty plump. It would make a good meal for someone. Still, Bluepool is nothing if not ambitious and she's determined to catch one of their bigger prey items to bring back with her. That's why when a rabbit darts out of it's burrow she is quick to break out into a chase shouting "I got it!" to the rest of the patrol as she takes off, her tattered tail streaming behind her like a banner as she streaks across the moors.
She wills herself to run faster, to consume the ground under her hungry paws and catch up to her prey before it gets to a burrow or tunnel. She gains ground quickly, coming up on the creature that is desperate to get away from her. When she draws nearer she pounces, or at least she thinks she does. Her back foot catches a particularly large rock and instead of sailing through the air she lands flat on her face, dust making a cloud around her and settling into her fur. As she pushes herself to her paws with a soft groan she sees the rabbit dart into a tunnel, out of her grasp. "Hare-dung!" she curses, her tone venomous as she spits on the ground and turns away from her failed catch to head sullenly back to her patrol.
if anyone would try to meet her eyes they would find her looking away, embarrassed.
// finally getting around to my prompt!!
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