Lady Kitsara's Awesome Scouting

It was as fast as lightning, coming down with terrifying accuracy.

"MEAT!" a woman shouted.

A dogkin woman with wild eyes and sunken cheeks had seen her. She lunged with a speed that made Kitsara's tiny rat body shudder from head to toe.

"FOOD!"

Kitsara yelped, bolting left as the woman slammed her hand into the dirt where she'd been a second earlier.

The woman gave chase on all fours like an unhinged predator, but she wasn't fast enough because Kitsara made perfect use of the pen's overcrowded nature: she slipped under a foot, bounced off a curled tail, and leapt into a gap beneath a feeding trough to hide.

From the safety of her cover, she peered out, scanning once more, and suddenly, her breath hitched.

There.