Something was making noise.
The wolf, having been prowling through Polaris, was frustrated to find that there were very few Gembounds out in Polaris. Normally it was practically swarming, and it pissed her off.
But then she heard footsteps. So she lowered her nose to the ground, and began to follow it, moving in a low stalk.
The thing she had found seemed to notice her. It seemed to be a rodent, and for a moment she dismissed it as little more than a Lesser Gembound. At least, that is, until it turned to face her, and intelligence glimmered in greedy black eyes. Oh, this would be easy, little more than a snack to wet her tongue.
Dropping down to a stalk, she approached the Quoll. She was only a body length away when she pounced, landing on the Quoll and pinning it to the floor with a roaring snarl. It wasn't the best grip, but it would do.
Oh no you don't!
The little rodent thing fulled itself free from her grip, and attempted to scurry away. But she was bigger then it, and it only get a body length away before she was on it.
Its blood filled her mouth as she gripped it by its hindquarters, the sharp bones of its hips pressing into her mouth. She hadn't bit it hard enough to kill it, but that didn't deter her. She needed to find its Gem, to tear it out and bring it to Mother. It wasn't visible on its outside, she had checked, so it had to be somewhere on the inside, didn't it?
Okay, this little rat was beginning to get really on her nerves. It was thrashing against her teeth - which really she didn't mind much, it just spilled more blood into her mouth. But the screeching, oh it was so irritating, grating on her ears.
So she clenched her jaw, sharp fangs cutting through the Quolls flesh, meat, muscles and bones, until they were about to close on its spine. Only thing did she drop it, having felt her sensitive Gem-fang scrape something that wasn't supposed to be there.
To her surprise, the rodent continued to move. It flailed and twisted in an uncoordinated way, splattering blood as it rolling along the ground. She stepped forward, and set her paw onto its torso, before aiming a bite at its torso. Unfortunately (for her, at least) she pulled out nothing but muscle.