Odd, these horse like creatures. They were like Vernon in body, but compleatly unlike him in way of the mind. They seemed like abused animals relised and terrifyed of the world. Well, for all she knew, they might have been.<br/>A rustle in the grass drew her attention, but before she could even turn her head to look, something lunged out of the grass.<br/>It was huge, bigger than any creature she'd seen. It was big enough to grab two of the grey animals, one in each hand, and holds them down.<br/>It was covered in shaggy green fur from top to bottom. It could walk on two legs, but looked to be faster on all four. It's head resembeled a fox, it's body a gorilla, and had the long flat tail of a beaver. And, worst of all, the huge monster apeared to be<em>rotting.</em>It didn't smell like it, but still, the large patches of dead, infeacted flesh didn't lie. And it's chest, it was a gapeing hole, and Katlin could clearly see the heart throbbing, the blood flowing through the veins. It was amazing that this animal was even alive.<br/>As she watched, it picked up one of the struggling creatures, clearly intending to bite it's head off.<br/>Anger, and poor 'thinking it through' skills would be her downfall some day.<br/>Katlin rushed forward, quickly climbing up the things body, going for the one weakness she saw, the compleatly exposed heart. The beast imeadiatly focused on stopping her, and it's prey took the chance and bolted.<br/>Katlin avoided the hand reaching for her, and reached for the pulsing mussle....<br/>only to be violently grabed and thrown away from it.<br/>Pain stabed through her, her body crashing into a thick tree at the edge of the forest, a loud CRACK asulting her ears. She colapsed, agony keeping her still. The monster seemed to have lost interest, returning to hunting the paniced horse creatures. Luckily, they had a head start.<br/>She gasped, eash breath shooting through her. She tried to get up, but she couldn't move, at least not easily. One or more of her ribs were broken, that much was odvious.<br/>She thought of Vernon, and was glad that he was far from there. That....thing, would have surely gone after him. Or Luna, for that matter, as she was mixed with a natural prey animal. She hoped that it was the only one of it's kind, and that it only stayed in this grassy area. That hope was short lived; she saw it give up it's chase and head into the forest.<br/>Katlin tried to move again, stagering on all fours before colapsing to the ground. Right now, she could only hope she could make it to the cave.