BENEDICT
Hunger gnawed at his belly with needling teeth. At first, it had been a minor irritation, but after passing the night without a meal, the dragon chick was restless from hunger and cold. It was about mid-morning when he could stand it no longer and promptly exited the den where he'd been staying, nose to the air in search of food.
A trail of blood from a recent hunt led him to the Veil camp. The frost had numbed his claws and limbs, but the sight of food seemed to stir some primal energy within him. Scuttling over to a freshly killed rabbit on the communal prey pile, the young dragon chick dragged it off and began digging into it with a voracity uncharacteristic of his age.