Post by eudoxia on Feb 23, 2008 12:03:58 GMT -5
Winter had come and was now almost gone. Spring was in the air and even though Eudoxia looked forward to the spring, she loved the winter's snows. Cold temperatures were her favorite to run around in, but spring was good also. Through the snow she loped, her white body mostly blended with the snow except her green eyes and some black on her muzzle. Ahead was what she was looking for. A young deer was grazing farther away from the ground. She dropped into the snow low enough that her belly hair brushed the snow as she crawled forward. Green eyes watched his every move as the young buck pawed through the snow to get at the dead grass.
A sudden pick up in the wind sent the white wolf's scent right into the nostrils of the deer and they quickly lifted their tails and took off. Her haunches had tightened before she exploded from the snow, running quickly after the young buck. Her muscles strained as she ran, going hard and fast to catch her prey. Snow flew up from the buck's hoofs and hit her in the face so she had to run towards it flank so she could see. The buck was thin and had little meat on its bones for the long and hard winter, but it was food and that was something that the female wolf needed. She got close to his rising and falling haunches and then sprung.
Her teeth hit their mark and sunk into his tender flesh, blood filling her her mouth and spilling into the snow. Her paws gripped at him, but his small hoofs hit her right in the gut and she was ripped from his flank and tossed into the snow while he ran off. Bleeding, but still alive. She lay in the snow for awhile, gasping for breath until she could breath again. The female rose from the snow and shook it from her pelt before looking around and sniffing at the red snow, her muzzle poking into the white snow only to have some of it stick to the blood on her white muzzle. The female ran her muzzle around in the snow to get it off some and then looked at the direction the young buck had gone, not sure if she should follow and try again or it was just a lost cause.
Name ;;Eudoxia
Feelings ;; alone, unsure, confused
Status ;; 401 words