The Reign of Booka, Chapter 2, #10

The hunting party enters the clan compound dragging the bull, as the clan circles the feast with their mouths drooling in anticipation. Before the clan can tear into the bull, Booka's warriors hold them back as Booka enters, carrying Soofa in his arms. Booka puts Soofa down ,who is now able to stand on her own, and rips off a piece from the bull and hands it to Soofa, who immediately wolfs it down.

The clan lurches forward but Soofa holds her hand up, but the clan ignores her and pushes forward.  Booka growls at the clan to wait until told to feast. Soofa goes and gets her aged mother and Booka's mother and brings them over to the bull and slices off a piece for both of them.. No one in the clan objects to this because they  sense that now Booka is their true leader and they must obey. After Booka, Soofa and their mothers had eaten their fill, the warriors tare into the bull followed by the rest of the clan.

After a couple of days and much feasting and mating , the entire clan has had their fill. Soofa wakes up and notices the lack of noise coming from the herd. She walks out of the compound and sees an open and scorched land that was consumed of all vegetation by the herd, which has moved on at night in search of other vegetation to consume.

Soofa wakes Booka to see that the herd has finally gone on the march and now he must get the clan ready to follow. Up and ready quickly ,as the clan members know, they must keep up or be left behind to either starve or be eaten by the many predators.

The clan moves out with Booka at front with his warriors flanking on both sides to protect the pregnant, young and old in the middle, and with Soofa and her warriors protecting the rear.

to be continued

The Reign Of Booka , Chapter 2 #9

Booka jumps out from the bush and howls to get the bull's  attention. The bull turns away from Soofa and charges toward Booka, which it perceives as the greatest threat. As the bull turns away from her, Soofa, seeing Booka risk his life to save her, throws her body in front of the bull's back legs like a cross block. The bull stumbles which gives Booka the opportunity to jump on the bull's back. The bull bucks hard to try to throw Booka off it's back. Booka holds tight to the bull's horns and inches up to be able to reach around the bull's horns and bring his hand ax down hard on the unprotected area between the bull's eyes. The blow brings the bull down and now the rest of the warriors move in to finish the bull off and drag it away before predators nearby cannot steal their kill.

Booka, instead of going with his warriors and the kill, walks over to where Soofa lays battered and bruised but alive. Booka picks up Soofa in his arms and begins to lick her wounds. A bond is formed between these two, who risked their lives to save the other. Booka had never felt this way toward anyone not even his mother and to lick the wounds of another warrior would be impossible for him but with this female he felt something strange but enjoyable.

Going back to the clan, the warriors entered first carrying the dead bull followed by Booka carrying Sophia.

to be continued