Arnaq had woken before the sun graced the skies with it's presence. It seemed to her that she managed to find better prey during sunrise than most other times of the day. Prey coming out of their burrows or dens slumberous apparent in every motion. She trotted over to the stream and took her morning drink, making sure to not wake anyone. She looked over her pack mates and her ears could hear the tiny sounds of the newest members in their den with their mother. It would be breakfast soon, she should hurry.
Arnaq jumped across the small stream and headed out, her nose to the ground as her eyes scanned back and forth. She didn't want to hunt any where close but if a meal presented itself, she wouldn't turn it down. Her eyes landed on a hare, she licked her maw and crouched towards the ground. It was lost in it's grooming, not realizing that it was being stalked. She nearly crawled with in distance. She had learned that forest ground was harder to hunt in then tundra, yet easier in other ways. It took her several attempts to learn how to stealth through this foliage and even still she messed up more times than she could count but that wouldn't deter her from the task at hand.
Arnaq watched the hare, looked around the area, nothing seemed to notice her as she blended into their surroundings. She licked her maw again, her front paw twitching, her hind legs coiled up under her waiting for the right moment. It the next breath she took, she sprang to life and chased the hare only a matter of a few strides before landing her kill. She laid on it for a moment. It was dead just from the blow of her jaw, but she wanted to catch her breath. Looking around the area the birds had gone, shouting their alarms. She was fine with that, she already had her prey.
She sniffed the hare, if she wasn't mistaken, this hare had the smell of milk on her. She turned the dead prey over and looked at it. "OH! That would be perfect!" She exclaimed loudly. She picked the hare up in her mouth and begin to follow the scent trail. This one had babies and she would bet they were going to be a delicate taste for the alpha mother. She spent several minutes looking for this place, finally she found it and buried her nose in to the hole. She could smell them. Oh how she wanted to taste one herself, but she wouldn't do that. It would be a grand gift indeed, at least in her mind.
She dropped the hare off to the side and began digging through the hole in the ground. It wasn't deep to be honest, but it was far enough that she had to dig out several times. The babies, there were so many of them. She wondered how she would carry them all. She killed several in each bite and some got away. They weren't exactly newborns. She let them run, something else would catch them. She had six prey now to carry. She picked up the babies first and stuffed them into her cheeks and picked the hare up last. To anyone, it would look like the young wolf had stuffed her cheeks like a squirrel, with parts of her prey dangling from several places.
Arnaq was proud of herself. She had never made this kind of find before. She was excited to get back. The wolf had yet to realize she had been gone nearly all morning. To her it would be worth the prize, she didn't know how the others would feel though. She had never been gone this long before on her own, not since she joined. She had to readjust her jaw several times along the way as the mother hare kept slipping. She knew it was worth the trouble. Finally making it back to the stream, she hesitated, she didn't want to drop the meal in the water, slowly she wadded through the water and back to the other side.
She saw Aponi out of the den and she lowered herself to the ground, dropping her catches in front of her, first the mother hare, than the six babies, all fell out one by one, she used her nose to push them forward to her Alpha. She kept nothing for herself, she could find something later, she knew the mother needed the food and she was excited and proud of herself for catching such a prize, her ears were perked towards the she-wolf as her tail and butt wagged back and forth. She was clearly excited to show off the catches that she made for Aponi.