Sharks circling prey, fighting for the first bite and the second and all of the bites couldn't have been more vicious in their behavior than the two blighted friends foes who fought over the turkey as it went limp between them. Jigano had a hold on the leg, but Melita grabbed onto the bird's wing and the bard snarled at her temerity, jerking at the leg he held and taking a swipe at the honeybee black-blooded young woman with fox-clawed fingers that dripped red with blood.
The bird was warm though its heart had ceased to beat as they wrestled over it, fighting for the sweet flesh hidden beneath soft feathers while its brethren made their panicked escape into the falling night, calling fearfully to each other. The sun was fading into the west, shadows lengthening and darkening as it did, but even as the red reflection faded from the snow, fresh red blood took its place as the carcass that had become the rope in a macabre game of tug-of-war tore and bled freely under the rough handling of the beasts that fought over it.
There was no longer any sense of friendship between them, no camaraderie of lost souls or packmate hunters. They were rivals now, enemies who recognized only the interference of the other, blight-stricken and beastly in their worst impulses.
The bird was warm though its heart had ceased to beat as they wrestled over it, fighting for the sweet flesh hidden beneath soft feathers while its brethren made their panicked escape into the falling night, calling fearfully to each other. The sun was fading into the west, shadows lengthening and darkening as it did, but even as the red reflection faded from the snow, fresh red blood took its place as the carcass that had become the rope in a macabre game of tug-of-war tore and bled freely under the rough handling of the beasts that fought over it.
There was no longer any sense of friendship between them, no camaraderie of lost souls or packmate hunters. They were rivals now, enemies who recognized only the interference of the other, blight-stricken and beastly in their worst impulses.
