Bleu<br/><br/>Emerald eyes framed in blue hair peeked over a stump as ten sharp claws gripped the log firmly, bracing against her weight. Some distance away was a fairly lean, but decent sized doe grazing in a field. It had been the first animal she'd seen in the few minutes she'd been out here, and at the moment, it was looking as tasty as anything she'd ever seen. Her tongue flicked out of her mouth for a moment, her vomeronasal organ picking up the doe's scent. '<em>Downwind...</em>' she mused to herself, looking at her target as it blissfully grazed, unaware of what lie in wait. '<em>Perfect.</em>' She let a little smile escape her lips as she lowered herself completely in the ground, ready to strike.<br/><br/>Moving slowly behind the target, she kept checking it's location with her tongue and eyes, making sure it wouldn't get suspicious of anything. Normally, a snake wouldn't dream of trying to take down something as big as a doe... but Bleu was no normal snake. She was a few feet behind it as she coiled her tail under her like a spring, ready to pounce. '<em>Checkmate, mate.</em>' She thought upon pouncing, emitting a hiss as she flew through the air.<br/><br/>The doe wasn't nearly fast enough, choosing to turn and look at what the noise was, rather then flee. Landing on it, she wrapped her arms and tail around the animal's back and stomach, and bit into it's neck, injecting a powerful sleep poison into it's veins. The first thing to go was leg functionality. The doe couldn't move, but simply collapsing to the ground. With leg functionality destroyed, she could unwrap her arms as it lay in the grass.<br/><br/>"Ssssh..." She hushed it, stroking it's head with her hand. "It's okay... don't you worry..." She smiled as she continued to stroke, it's eyes flickering back and forth, trying to figure out what was happening. "There's no need to be afraid, girl... this is a good death... quick... painless...." As it's breathing slowed to a regular pace, she started singing softly to it. "<em>Golden slumbers kiss your eyes... Smiles await you when you rise... Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry... And I will sing you a lullaby...</em>" The doe seemed to be soothed by her song, it's rushing heart slowing to a normal pace. It's eyes were half closed as she continued her song. "<em>Cares you know not... Therefore sleep, while I o'er you watch do keep... Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry...</em>" Sleep now completely consuming the doe, she placed one claw on either side of it's jugular vein. "<em>And I will sing you a lullaby...</em>" Upon finishing, she pierced it's neck and tore the vein from it's neck. A quick, painless, clean death.<br/><br/>She hated doing that. Killing. She would much rather get her food more or less alive, and just eat it whole, that way she didn't have to watch it die, but catching food for three people was tricky. She couldn't just eat it and regurgitate it later, she wasn't a bird. So that means catching something big, killing it, flaying the carcass, and bringing the meat back. A messy, painful process she would rather not do. As the doe drew last breath, she uncoiled herself from it and looked it over. Now was time for the gory part.<br/><br/>Using her razor claws, she expertly sliced large steaks from the deer's bones, and piling them in a neat stack beside her. She'd find a river to wash the blood and dirt off them later. She tried to use as much of the meat as she could, hating above all else waste. Cleaning what she could from the body, she located a small stream nearby and used the clean water to remove the messy blood and unhealthy dirt from the steaks, walking away with around thirty pounds of meat in all. A good haul. Putting the steaks in her pack, she started for Reason's camp. Maybe she could trade some of this for information and what she knew, and maybe she could build that smoker she's been dying to for a while, help preserve the catch.<br/><br/>((OOC: I'm a sick puppy, I know.))