Awakening - Rejected Mate
Panting, with an erratic heartbeat, hunched up in my poised pose but dumbstruck and blinking at it.
It seems stunned for a moment, rolls, and crawls to its trembling legs, blinking my way, and then turns and takes off at a ridiculously slow speed, no longer willing to combat whatever I just did. It’s not recovered though, it’s clumsy, and swaying, and crashing into the undergrowth.