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The hunter knew that he was not going to
make the same mistake twice.
His hands were covered in blood. Saucy
Calf was lying at his feet with her life pouring out. Her eyes were wide, full
of a knowledge that scared him. She coughed, and her lips were stained red with
her blood. Her eyes were shining with a kindness that he knew would slide away
from him and be gone.
“I’m never gone,” she said. But her lips
hadn’t moved. Her voice was piercing, and unspeakably beautiful. “You just
can’t see me. Open your heart to me, beautiful one. All I want is for you to
see me.”
Red Crane screamed. The night swallowed
his cry.
She was dead.
There was no compromise. He had seen
death so many times. The rocks around the cave entrance glowed with the light
of the moon. His eyes found Grasping Raccoon.
“What have you done to your lover? Look
at that. You did that.” Grasping Raccoon jumped up and down, laughing. “Now
you’ll know the pain you caused me.”
Red Crane felt himself coiling to
strike. But the Ukteena struck him first.
Grasping Raccoon screamed and was tossed
high in the air. The Ukteena shook him in his jaws and flipped him almost
playfully into the air.
Then it turned to Red Crane, sinewy
scales sliding past each other. Blood dripped from the jaws of the monster.
When it opened its mouth, teeth as long as first year antlers gleamed at him.
The Ukteena was death. Yet, there was an innocence in its lack of knowledge, a
grace in the pure rage that spoke of deeper realms of pain, of deeper
redemptions than he could see. The Ukteena’s light burst forth from the
forehead of the beast.
And for the first time, Red Crane could
see.
And it was all just as they said it
would be. His world fell apart and his mind shattered like a mirror fusing into
a shining surface from a million tiny pieces.
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