Life flashed across her eyes in the briefless second, not her life but the life of the wild beast that was on the floor heaving heavily before it shut its eyes .
Teal tried to say a word but she couldn't, she laid still on the ground covered with the blood of the beast too afraid to move, she tried to reflect on what had happened. A lot of questions at the back of her mind, probing her.
When she finally spoke it came in three words and three heart beats .
"What - Just - Happened?"
It was a question she was asking no one in particular other than herself, as the world spinned round her as she stood to her feet fixed in a spot .
She stared at the carcass on the floor and wiped the blood with her hands, her bow that had disappointed was still a few meters away from her on the ground dama
