Comet watched as the dark shape of the bird swoops down in an attempt to get the rabbit. There was a plume of snow, and Nemo rises up again, with no rabbit. In the other direction, the Snowwhisker had bounded away. "It's alright!" There was no point in keeping quiet now, their prey had already escaped. "Let me see if I can scent another one."

This time, her nose caught the faint scent of a rodent coming from the right. She motioned with her head as to where the scent was coming from. Maybe Nemo could try catching this one.

@Nemo

Nemo

He banks again flap, turning tightly and following Comet, his eyes raking the snow for where she indicated- he was a little peeved that he'd missed the first thing, and the snow in his feathers is biting at his skin.

So, he dives again, this time intending to crush the small thing into the snow and landing [i]hard/[i] on the tiny prey, talons interlocked over it and sliding a bit in the snow.

It almost wiggles away, and with a hiss he jabs down his his beak and strikes it on the back of the head, rendering it stunned and still.

"Got it!"

@Comet

Nemo swoops down again, and a gust on wind temporarily blinds Comet from seeing whether it was successful. A moment later her vision clears, and she sees him standing triumphantly over his kill. His voice carries along the wind, "Got it!". "Coming!" she runs through the snow, spraying it up behind her.

Once she arrives, she sees that this looked very similar to a mouse, but it was pure white, and had really thick fur. It was, in fact, an ice mouse. "Looks like a fluffy white mouse." she states the obvious. Then Comet notices the gem on its head. "It has a gem..."

@Nemo

Nemo

Nemo manages to right himself by time Comet gets to him, one foot holding the stunned Lesser down, and other splayed in the snow and scattering a bit of red into the white powder, most likely from the food under his foot and not his own, but who knows. Cold wind is drying!

With another peck, he breaks it's neck quickly, before lifting his foot and taking a step back.

"You want the gem? I have no use for one like this, at least not now. You can eat first, by the way. I don't tend to eat meat, I'm cleanup." a wry chuckle, and he nudges the Icemouse again.

"It's adorable, though, I almost feel bad for killing it. Ah well, circle of the caves."

@Comet

The blood seeped into the snow around the mouse in a circle of red. Comet watches as Nemo breaks the mouse's neck with a sharp peck, he was quite good at this. "Sure." The pup was planning to perhaps add it to her other gemstones, who she gave out to her friends to revive. Who knew who might want to revive this one? She pried the gem off the forehead with her mouth and placed it next to her paw.

Oh? So he didn't eat meat? That meant he must like the bones. But how would he eat the bones? She was pretty sure birds didn't have teeth. Although his beak was sharp, that might not help too much. "Okay!" Comet tore off a large chunk of meet, exposing the bones. As she gulped it down, she watched to see how Nemo would try eating the bones.

@Nemo

Nemo

While Comet busies herself with pulling the gem out of the mouse, he takes a beakful of the bloody snow and swallows it, opening and closing his beak a few times like he's licking his lips, but... y'know, bird, beak, etc.

The bones exposed, he stretches a talon out and pins the small body, pulling an exposed rib or two out of the body and just swallowing them both, before dipping back down to try and pull of a shoulder blade or something else large and exposed, eventually giving up and leaning back, allowing Comet to take her next mouthful of meat and expose more bone.

Yeah, he could tear it off with his beak, but. He wants to watch Comet's teeth work again.

This would be a terrifying sight, two cold weather predators standing over a slowly growing stain on the snow, but it's just a quick snack, and absolutely nothing compared to the other things the caves have seen. "Hey, uh, Comet, you've got some uh-" Nemo gestures at his own chin, as if to indicate some food bits.

The 'geier has no room to talk, his own beard and chin are red instead of the vibrant blue he'd applied.

@Comet

Comet watches intently as Nemo pulls out one of the exposed bones. How was he going to eat it? Then she watches as he swallows it whole. Wow okay, what a twist. She didn't even think of that. Bones were small enough that you could swallow it without chewing she guessed. "Oh." Comet swipes her tongue around her mouth, feeling the small chunks of meat return to her mouth. The pup notices that Nemo's beard and chin were now stained with blood, covering up the vibrant blue color that he had dyed it with. That was unfortunate.

After he tried pulling off another bone without much success, Comet tore off another long chunk, exposing the bones on the leg. Swallowing it greedily, she sighed. "That was a good snack." she waited for him to finish.

@Nemo

Nemo

The look of shock from Comet once again gets a birdy smile from Nemo, and when she indicates she's done, he simply scoops up what's left of the carcass and swallows it- again, whole.

"No mess, no problem right? Who knows what would be attracted by leaving anything behind. Are you uh... ready to keep going?"

Red stripe from bottom beak to collar bone, bauble slightly dirty, and the rest of the top half of his body bright blue... what a mess. He'll flip out when he spots himself, and that will be a funny sight to see, but for now, he's going to bear the colors like warpaint.

A ruffle of Comet's fur with one wing, and then he opens his wingspan and takes off with a flurry of powder, circling overhead and waiting for her to track something - or for him to attempt to do the same. Seems like they've got some sort of pattern down, right?

"Don't forget your stone!"

@Comet

Comet watches in shock, for the second time, as he swallows the rest of the mouse whole. Okay, the bones were rather small, and those were reasonable to swallow, but the rest of the mouse? This was getting crazy. She starts to wonder how he even expands that throat of his wide enough to swallow things like that.

The blood from the one mouse had already stained his feathers to the point where he looked like a red and blue painting. At one point he as going to be completely soaked in blood if he continued eating like that. "Yep! Let's go!" She covers her face as he takes off, and runs across the snow, searching for their next prey. Her eyes catch sight of another ice mouse, and she briefly ponders if they should try catching it. "I found another white mouse! Want to try spotting something else?" She wanted to try a different kind of lesser.

@Nemo

Nemo

He happily follows her through the air, giggling in glee when he's able to catch a thermal and just gets tossed gently in one direction or the other, relishing in the lack of fear for the first day in a while.

Maybe it's the fact that he knows that getting thrown into snow will hurt less? Who knows.

But-

"If you want something else, lets go for it! I'll give the slopes a look!"

With that, he wheels higher, scanning the slopes for movement and spotting a familiar flash of an outline and a stunning glint of something other than white-

"Hopper, up that way," he swoops down to Comet, making sure to keep his shadow from alerting the Lesser. "You wanna go?"

@Comet