The Prey and Survival

She hung there, wrapping the darkness around herself like a cape. This world had changed so much while she’d slept. It no longer felt like her world at all. When she’d laid her tired body down for the long sleep, she was expecting the prey to die, to become extinct.

The prey had been dying off in their hundreds, thousands of some disease. She had been hungry for a long time. She could not live off the diseased prey they made her ill too. So she’d had one great feed of all the healthy prey she...