Cold (Section II)

The billed prey-creature had not been enough. Though she'd been fortunate when it had unknowingly stumbled so close to her nest, the prey-creature had been little more than leathery skin stretched taught over bone - another survivor from the instance in which the light had consumed the horizon and changed everything within and beneath the sky. However, it's time upon the darkening world had come to a swift and violent end, drawn to a close by a single crushing bite to the base of its skull delivered by her killing maw.