Oct 23 2020, 10:45 AM
The little calf ignored everything around him, instead charging clumsily for the exit, on the heels of the hunters. His angered bleating was tempered by pants of weariness, the fury in his eyes by the rolling of their whites. Little hooves stumbled here and there.
He shoved and shouldered his way past anyone small enough to be moved by his two-hundred-or-so-pound baby frame, ignoring all attempts at politeness or order in favor of pushing his way rudely and chaotically ahead.
The clumsy stumbles of youth did nothing to slow him, his gangly legs driving cloven hooves into the dirt to push him farther ahead.