The Hunger That Feeds;; Pey mentioned;; Open

[Jiyu Simul Stamus]

It had been several days since she last got to feed on anything that could provide suitable nutrition for her, the few scraps of prey she had stomached in front of other's to hide the fact of her diet from the kits and more light-hearted, was not nearly enough to keep her alive. Jiyu was quickly approaching the maximum number of days she could starve herself and would soon have to leave the territory of her group in order to hunt down another cat. However, leaving in order to hunt presented many difficulties, challenges, and worries. Not only did having to hunt leave her entirely alone, it left The Roseblood without her normal protection sometimes for several days if she could not quickly procure a meal. Killing another cat for food safely? Was much harder than killing normal prey. Unless she wanted to start a war that would come back to the animals she cared about protecting, the calico had to pick her meal carefully and also kill out of the eye of any other animals to make sure a group that disliked cannibalism would not come down on her group for harboring her. Outside of what she could bring in from hunting, other things could slip by while she was gone, especially in the current state of the group!

Before the sabertoothed feline would ever dream of leaving Roseblood for her own hunting, she had to take steps to make sure everyone would still be safe here until she returned. "Peytriviing." she wasn't going all over the mansion shouting for him, but she was doing her normal rounds through it and occasionally speaking his name to see if he was anywhere nearby. Correction, she'd be able to smell him if he was close, she was speaking up so she didn't take the manticore by surprise when she found him, and possibly so some other animal could tell him she was looking for him and he'd just come to her. The large male was part one in her plan to make sure that the entire group remained safe while she was gone, and also remained safe if she brought back more trouble than she intended to. Pey was an animal capable of clearing a good portion of the territory on patrol relatively quickly. Jiyu just needed to make sure he knew which routes to take and then make sure he knew that she would not be running those patrols for two or three days at most. If she could not procure food at that point? She would suck it up and eat a rotting corpse from the mess hall.