
Yet just as she was preparing to settle down and eat the thing, she heard a vicious yowling coming from the next bush over. Curious, she slipped through the underbrush, carcass in tow, to find a buck with his jaws fastened around the throat of a lynx of all things, silencing its yowls forevermore.
She dropped her kill to the ground, and they exchanged appraising looks.
“Overcompensating much?” she jeered.
The looks turned meaningful.
“See for yourself."
And she did. The next morning, when she woke up alone with the shreds of a lynx pelt and one ramcat horn, she had to admit he was definitely not overcompensating.