A/N Sorry for the extremely long wait, and the shorter chapter. I just wanted to let you all know that the story hasn't been abandoned. I have no excuses except summer vacation. J
Almost as one, the pack leapt from the remaining bush. Tarya let loose with her arrow at the animal in the lead. As it crumpled to the ground, the second one leapt over its body at her. She reacted, grabbing for her knife. Before she could unsheathe it, Tzmuken had buried his knife up to its hilt in the nantang's chest. Reaching for another arrow, she saw a pair of figures stumbling into the clearing, one clearly supported by the other. Some of the predators veered off, heading towards the wounded couple.
Tarya quickly loosed an arrow towards them, taking one of animals in mid leap. Before she could continue, Tzmuken had reached the other, and tackled it mere feet from the motionless figures. Sensing this was not there fight, the nantang dissolved back into the undergrowth, as silently as they had appeared. Once she was certain they had left, Tarya ran to her companion who was already attending to the pair. As she approached, she reached for her own medical supplies, before Tzmukan's sharp command cut through the air.
"He is badly wounded, and has been poisoned by a lenay'ga. She is nearly dead from exhaustion. You must go and bring back Mo'at. Hurry! I fear they may not last long." She wordlessly turned and bounded back the way she had come, calling to her ikran. She flew as fast as she dared, knowing two lives hung in the balance.
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