He watched her as she headed to the river that they had landed by.  A tributary of the Great Vosk River that made the one they were by look like a stream.  The sun was high in the sky and it was warm now.  He was cooking their noon meal as she headed to the river to take a bath.   It was a good idea but a bad one at the same time.  She was smart enough to stay close to the shore line, but he was not worried about what might lie in the water but what prowled the land.  Midnight froze and looked in the direction of a group of trees near where Reese was.  Daniel rolled his eyes and picked up his spear and shield.  Shield held on one arm he took a few steps slowly towards the river and as the Red Larl sprang from where it was at Reese, he threw his spear and it hit the Red Larl dead in the middle of his chest, driving it deep and to the creatures heart.  It fell dead but a couple feet from Reese.<br/><br/>He moved forward and pulled the spear from the dead Red Larl, a feline, like a lion, but with no mane.  He looked at Reese and shook his head.  He then washed the blood from the spear and took a cloth from a bag in the saddlebags and wiped it down.  Looking at Midnight, "Yeah she was almost lunch for the big cat.   Now you go on and find your meal out there, unless you want that for it.  Midnight moved to where the big cat was and picked it up in its beak and moved off a ways and began to rip the thing apart and eat it.  Well it would not go to waste.  "Out here there is danger behind every tree or rock."  he looked at Reese.  One does not just take a bath with out taking precautions."  His voice was like that of some one scolding a child.  He then returned to the fire and the food being cooked.