Drabble-A-Day: AC Valhalla, Petra
Feb. 4th, 2026 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theunsinkablesapphoPrompt - Pursue [verb]: follow (someone or something) in order to catch or attack them; (of a person or way) continue to proceed along (a path or route)
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The trees started to blend together as Petra picked her way through the slick mud. Just ahead of her were fresh wet tracks through the muck, and the deer that left them was walking poorly. One of the prints was dragging, indicating injury. With her bow ready in hand she crept as quietly as possibly through the shrubs toward the clearing ahead. It had been an hour since she stumbled upon these tracks by luck. Whatever injury the deer had, it was only slowing it down a little. Petra would find it though, and spare the animal a slow death.
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The trees started to blend together as Petra picked her way through the slick mud. Just ahead of her were fresh wet tracks through the muck, and the deer that left them was walking poorly. One of the prints was dragging, indicating injury. With her bow ready in hand she crept as quietly as possibly through the shrubs toward the clearing ahead. It had been an hour since she stumbled upon these tracks by luck. Whatever injury the deer had, it was only slowing it down a little. Petra would find it though, and spare the animal a slow death.
