The golden sun was beginning to dip lower in the sky.
Jin Xuan walked through the tall grass, his chest puffed out with pride. In his massive hands, he carried his latest prize: a perfectly round, incredibly shiny white rock he had found near the watering hole.
It was a beautiful rock. It was smooth. It was heavy. Surely, the tiny female would appreciate this much more than the bloody ostrich. Females liked shiny things, right?
"Tiny female!" Jin Xuan called out, his deep voice rumbling. "I brought you a rock! It is much better than your flat black rock!"
He wandered toward the edge of the camp, sniffing the air. He could faintly catch the lingering, intoxicating scent of wild lavender, but it was getting weak.
Following the scent trail toward the river path, Jin Xuan stopped dead in his tracks.
Sitting in the middle of a dusty clearing, right where the elephant grass met the riverbank, were the three most terrifying apex predators in the known Beast World.
