Snippet #795753

Anjali moved slowly inside of a large berry bush. The thorns scratched at her but she could smell ripe berries inside of it. She took a deep breath and let the sweet smell course through her. She had to crawl a few more inches... almost there. Success! she grabbed at the berries and greedily shoved them in her mouth. They were so ripe and the taste, She thought she had died and gone to heaven. However soon all of the berries were gone. She looked around sadly at the lost. She was still hungry, and she could hear her stomach begging for food. She crawled out of the bush and brushed the twigs off of her skin and clothes. It was late afternoon and she had found no travelers that she could steal a meal from all day. She growled in frustration and stormed off to the north.

By nightfall she had still not find something to fill her stomach, she whined and looked around desperately for something to eat. She sighed. This was the 3rd day in a row she was being forced to go without a good meal. Her stamina was suffering from it. She wondered for another hour, looking in trees for squirrel nuts and stripping eatable plants bare. She was used to this, wandering in the forest and eating the plants. She was hungry but she was usually hungry. It was how she lived. She found a little grassy spot and sat down. It was a cloudless night and the stars were shining brilliantly. She reached up with one of her claws and poked at one of the stars. She wished she could be up there, flying around and being companions of the stars. She remembered when her daddy would take her up onto his back and with his powerful wings let her soar among them. A single tear rolled down her face at the memory of what she had lost. There was a shift in the wind and it brought the enticing smell of a campfire to her nose. She sat up and followed the scent. Not long after the light of a fire come into view. She dashed over to where the fire was because where there was fire there were people. and where there were people, there was food.

She was on the edge of the clearing. as she looked in she saw a neat camp site with a bag near the fire and rough looking man laying against a tree asleep. "Perfect" she thought, "I can be in and out with his food and he'll never know" she smiled at herself. She quietly entered the clearing, walking slowly and being careful her feet didn't scratch a rock and wake the man. She got to the beg and opened it up. Inside there were a lot of knives but most importantly there was FOOD. She couldn't contain herself. half starved she began to eat right there grabbing pieces of beef jerky. She hadn't had meat in three months and she considered it a blessing. As she reached in her talon scratched against a knife and made a slight metalic sound.