Capture
He was hungry.
The tiny creature tasted the dank air; seeking the scent of food. His mother had been gone for a long time; his nest mates had already wandered off. He glanced over at what was left of the runt of the litter. Nothing but bones. He'd have to look elsewhere for food.
Stumbling out of the bedraggled nest, he scanned the area with his weak eyes. Tasting the air again, he noted that the area was almost abandoned. Without a glance at where he had spent most of his life, he made his way out of the thickets that surrounded him- and out of the depths of the swamp.
Hours later, he still wandered. The dying badger-toad that he'd found had not done much. The other creatures seem to have caught his scent- and were long gone by the time he arrived. As night fell and the burning in his eyes eased, he tasted the air yet again- and caught a delicious flavour. His triangular head swung around to the west, tiny body almost trembling with hunger. Forked tongue flicked out once more to verify the aroma.
Fresh meat.
Too inexperienced to hide from any life on his way, with the little energy he had left, the bold young creature near sprinted to the odour's source. When he finally came to a spot devoid of animal life, trampled by strange footprints, hunger overcame any fear he may have felt for the strange scents that permeated the area- the very ground he walked on. His youth made him careless; hunger made him desperate. He stepped near the bleeding carcass of a large animal- and plunged with it into the depths of a badly hidden pit. Stunned for a moment, his four legs shook as he tried to get up, his yellow- tipped tail affording him a measure of balance and stability. For now, he had one objective in mind- the carcass that lay not three feet from him.
When the hunters came at daybreak to check on their pits, a pair of strangely intelligent yellow eyes stared up at them from its shadowed depths.
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