As luck would have it, Verity just happened to be tracking the same prey that the orange speckled kalona was, a hapless doe.
Verity had been out of the forest for a good few days now, and all the while, she realized how glad she was to not live in the desert. It was far, far to hot and dry for her liking, and the sand had taken a good afternoon of bathing in order to remove it all from her coat. Pairing that with a lack of a reliable food source and water, and it was all the more reason that she didn't want to visit again if she could help it. By comparison, the forest was full of both, and the trees and undergrowth were good cover if she needed it.
Picking her way quietly through the forest, Verity tracked her lunch. It had been more than a week since the last time she had hunted, and she could feel it start to really wear on her mind. She didn't know why she could eat vegetation, yet still needed meat, but she supposed it had something to do with her mother. Snorting, Verity pushed thoughts of her mother away, as she had other things to be focusing on at that moment.
This doe had been rather unlucky, as it had the misfortune of running across Verity when she had been without meat for long enough that she was willing to hunt something as large as a deer. She usually went for smaller creatures, so as to avoid wasting meat. However she had decided not to be picky, and attempted to take the doe down...Only she had missed, and only managed to leave a deep wound in it's side. Whoops. She was usually able to take out her prey before they realized what had happened to them, but her inexperience with large prey had cost her a swift kill. The doe had fled, and now Verity was tracking it to finish the poor thing off. She really hated the fact that she had caused it unnecessary suffering.
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