Happy Saturday and welcome to My Sexy Saturday! For this hop you post 7 paragraphs or 7 sentences
or 7 words. It can be from a WIP or something published.
For this week, I thought I’d do something from a WIP I'm working on called To Touch the Sky. It's the second novel in the Leap of Faith series. In our day and age, this Native American shifter is called Hawk. The excerpt takes place before the white man arrived. During this time, Hawk went by the name Chetan. Oh, and he's a red-tailed hawk shifter.
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“Oh
Spirit,” Chetan whispered. He’d let his attention drift from his nephew and
now… His own cries joined the madness as a monstrous bull darted from the
stampede and charged Isi.
Several
spears protruded from the maddened bull. The night was cool, and steam blew
from its nose. The rank smell of the animal nearly gagged him. As reality
slowed to a crawl, he saw Isi standing still, his hands by his side… doing
nothing. Sound distorted and warped as he yelled, his voice hopelessly lost in
the pandemonium raging around him, for Isi to move, draw his bow… do something.
Isi
stood frozen as Chetan continued to yell, running toward the young brave,
waving his arms frantically. If he could just get the bull’s attention… If he
could just get to Isi’s side before… He saw a black cougar casing the buffalo,
gaining rapidly. More cat shifters landed on the buffalo’s back and attacked,
sinking their great canines into the animal. It still wasn’t enough. The bull
was now a short distance from Isi and bearing down, the young warrior in its
sights.
Oh Wha-tay, I’m not going to make
it!
His legs pumped, his breath wheezed… and it didn’t matter. Oh please, Great Mother, no. Not this young one. Please. It’s my fault.
I let myself get distracted. Don’t let him… Take me, instead.
The
black cougar raced besides the buffalo then darted in close as it latched on to
the throat in an effort to suffocate the massive beast. The danger was
immense; the buffalo would trample the black cougar if given the chance. The
bull was too close and still Isi stood unmoving. Why is he just standing there? There was no way, no way for him to
get to Isi in time.
Chetan
stumbled to a stop and raised his bow, carefully taking aim. Please, please, let my aim be true. The
arrow struck the buffalo dead in the face, but it was too late. It plowed into
Isi with its mighty horns. Isi’s body flew high into the air, blood spurting
form the terrible wounds in his body. A scream filled the air. Was that Isi? Isi’s
mother? Or the bull?
“No.
No!” Chetan’s own scream joined the
ones around him.
