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With a snort of surprise, the raptor woke from his dream, and shivered a little. Nightmares never were that easy for him to handle. Panting he preened lightly as he woke, and licked his mate back. Quietly, he rose, and shook himself off. He must have dozed off while he was supposed to be watching the nest.

He took a bit of the meat he could smell, and gulped it down without a pause. He was HUNGRY, and it was taking all his concentration not to simply tear into it and leave nothing for his mate. When his hunger was sated, he backed off to let Kae finish, and stalked off to the back of the den to clean his mouth and claws.

Eron finished eating, and sighed, lashing his tail back and forth, back and forth. He allowed himself to be nuzzled, then nuzzled back, and butted heads with his mate. He didn't feel well, and it was probably apparent to the other. Lack of sleep. Lack of food. Lack of fresh air. It had all be accumulating for a while now, and was ending up with Eron as one sick Raptor.

"I think so..." he said quietly, touching noses with his mate. "Little dizzy. Little hungry. Lot tired."

Grateful for his mate's nearness, and the promise to watch over him, Eron felt himself settling down into something akin to sleep. But not. For the past few weeks, he had been unable to sleep. Restless, wandering from den to forest and back without any real meaning to it. Sure, sometimes he hunted. Sometimes he just stalked. But mostly, there was no telling why. And tonight was no different. Halfway through the night, Eron rose, with a lick to his sleeping mate, and stalked out of the den, restless and sleep-deprived both - which made him a little wobbly as he made his way into the forest. Just what was he doing in there anyway?

Eron snuck quietly through the forest, his eyes searching here and there for something. He stopped after a few moments, and paused, darting into the bush. He came back out with something cradled gently in his mouth. A rat squirmed against the other's teeth. But Eron didn't seem to have any intention of eating it. More... treating it like a pup. He set it down, licked it softly, and picked it up again by the scruff of its neck. He started headed back over to the den, completely oblivious of Kaesar's presence. Curling up with the rat against his side, the creature seemed... terrified. But there was a good chance that Eron would snap at his mate if he tried to eat the creature.

The raptor shook his head, and gave the scared rat another lick with the grain of its fur. That must have calmed the rat, and it settled down. Curled against the side of the raptor, once it was sure he wasn't going to eat it.

"I like it. It's mine."

Eron sighed, and curled up against his mate, taking the now-sleeping rat with him. He nodded, and looked down at his new pet.

"Something for him, too?"

Eron stood, and picked up the rat by the scruff, the beast still sleeping. He set the rat down in front of the berries, and dug into one haunch, soon gulping down meat as though he were going to save it for something. The rat woke soon after, and started munching on a berry, looking up at Kaesar and twitching whiskers and tail as if to ask permission to finish.