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gjalla's body coils beneath the brush, dark fur swallowing the scant light, ears pitched forward as the herd breathes and shuffles somewhere beyond the trees. the lagging one flickers in and out between trunks, a loose seam in the moving dark. her muzzle tips once. now.
the brush gives under her first burst, a black blur unspooling from stillness, and the herd reacts a heartbeat too late. hooves punch at the mud, branches snap back against flanks, and the straggler startles off its line as gjalla drives straight for its shoulder, angling to cut it from the others before it can fold back into the safety of the herd.
the deer lunges aside, and gjalla veers with it, carving through the undergrowth in a hard black line, every muscle in her frame snapping taut with pursuit. the herd breaks in a scatter of motion ahead.
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