A Snowflake Bares Fangs (open)

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A light blue edged ear flicked back as a particularly chilly breeze passed by. Its one of the few traces of color on the otherwise all white she-wolf. Even the eyes which she was using to scan the area with are a silver in color.

Snowflake was currently poised down in the snowy grass. Stray strands of straw waved about around her, the ones that hadn't been subdued by the weight of the snow this year. As she often enjoyed observing the movements and sounds of nature, the little bits of movement they created were being a bit distracting as she lay and wait for prey to come.


She had left her roaming family upon her getting old enough to go it alone, but she hadn't met any wolves yet...hadn't made any friends...


That meant that right now, she was hungry, and would have to go it alone. Almost idly, she wondered how it would go and if she'd be able to go it alone this winter or if perhaps she should look at other strategies of survival.

[Rykett]

.::Some distance across the hunting plains, a large herd of bison huddle together against the winter breeze, snow clinging to their fur. A couple of calves play just outside the rest of the herd. A few tired bison eyes watch them. Nearer to Snowflake and to her left, a cow moose and her calf plod across the plains. The calf is lagging behind a bit, but the mother hasn't noticed yet. A single snowshoe hare nuzzles through the snow to nibble at the dead grass beneath several wolf lengths away to Snowflake's right.::.

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Noticing the blue edged ear across the way, Lexi starts to move closer trying to stay downwind as she comes up on the unknown creature. Her stomach starts to growl again so she stops for a moment as to not spook whatever is in front of her. Lexi sniffs the air and catches a lovely scent of some bison and sees a hare out the corner of her eye. *the hare would be easier to catch but less food than the bison* she thinks to herself *but what is the creature in front of me?*. Tip-toeing forward she catches more of a glimpse at a lovely looking wolf who also seems to be on the hunt.

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Time crawls by as Snowflake thinks, watching each prey as much as she can. It feels like much longer than it probably is. The hare, the moose, the bison...she mentally sighs. Each hunt, she reminds herself, has to be about risk, reward, and how long that reward lasts.


Another few minutes of waiting. It does appear that she isn't noticed at least. Finally, she works herself up to the thrill of the hunt. Her eyes looking again to her three options. She starts moving, bellow low to the ground, inch by inch, towards the young moose. The hare is a harder kill for a lone wolf. The bison are strong and watchful. The calf however...


She keeps in mind that once she tried to fell the youngster, the mother will be angry and dangerous, but it will only be that one mother...

[Rykett]

.::As Snowflake stalks towards the moose, the hare notices her movement and hops quickly away, unknowingly approaching Lexi as it does. The mother moose and her calf pause at the skeletal branches of a small shrub. They tug at its branch, stripping the wood and pulling off tiny, growing buds. They remain unaware of Snowflake's approach.::.