I spun around when I heard a noise behind me. Tonia was approaching me on human legs from the riverbank, her hair waving in the cool night breeze. She has dressed again, and when she approached close, she nervously looked away.
"I'm not going to even inquire," I stated.
"Do you have any idea who those were?" She took a deep breath.
“Lions. That's a lot of them. "What were you doing?" I reprimanded.
"I keep forgetting that you humans know so little about your own history, let alone salvation." Then she leapt to her feet and grabbed my arm.
The Leopard had made a grunting sound. I approached the distressed body and discovered that it was still alive, albeit death did not appear to be far away.
All of its bones were shattered or out of alignment. It flowed in multiple places at once, an
