The SoulBorn Queen
Some tiny, broken bits of me shuddered at the idea.
Bushes moved raucously over the clearing.
Drawing my bow came naturally to me. I looked among the thorns, my breath caught.
Less than thirty paces away, a little doe stood still not too frail from winter but desperate enough to tear bark from a clearing tree.
A week or more could see my family fed from a deer like that.
My mouth watery. Just as the wind hissing through dead leaves, I aimed.
She kept ripping bark strips, chewed gently, completely oblivious of how near her death was.