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She dipped her beak down and accepted the hunk ofit back several times to move the food down her throat She finished and looked at hi her again It was all in Ger, but it sure sounded like endear innot to bother the bird "Hush, freak"

"Do you want to watch her hunt?" asked Bodo

"Yeeah," said Peter hesitantly He leaned over and whispered in my ear "Do I want to see her hunt?"

"I think so, yeah" I whispered back "So long as it’s not our eyeballs she’s after"

"Yeah, right," he agreed,one of his hands up slowly over his eyebrows "I’m ready!" he called out

Bodo launched the hawk into the air and she rose up with a great beating of wings to fly so on a current of air for what see I half expected her to just fall out of the sky for lack of effort

When she finally did change trajectory, she nearly gavea dia down to the earth, ailad wasn’t me

I moved closer to Peter and stroked Buster’s fuzzy back as he sat innocently in Peter’s arms, oblivious to the lad as I a around out there?" asked Peter

"Yes, definitely"

The hawk landed on soround a little bit, her wings flaring out a few tiain Then she bent down and tore at soing from her beak

Bodo tooted on his har down for a second before launching herself powerfully into the sky again Her wings beat with hard thrusts, her ah enough up, separated fully fro as her backdrop, I could see she had a snake in her claws The thing was flopping around all over the place as she moved closer and closer to Bodo

I put , holy shit, I hope that thing is dead and not poisonous

The hawk landed on Bodo’s ar her sharp-looking talons and letting it drop into his hand He lowered it slowly, letting it hang li when he casually stuck the tail of it in the back of his waistband He pulled out so her feathers as she gobbled it down like before

I shook my head I had seen her before, but I was still bloay by her now She was alical I was reed sochain ainst ar Bodo dressed like that He’d totally fit in

"Sorthy," said Peter "I have to adoofy to hot just like that" He snapped his fingers

"I know, right?" I looked at the snake hanging down over his backside "Except for the whole snake in the pants thing Not so sorthy"

"Yeah, right Gah, that’s disgusting Why’d you make me look at it?" He turned with Buster in his arled at just the wrong time

"Buster, no!" yelled Peter

But Buster had other plans that didn’t include being coddled in Peter’s ar behind hirasses in the distance

The hawk took one look at his out at her sides and flapping theet out of their way, hanging on to the leather straps that rapped around her ankles, yelling the whole time

"Get hi daintily through the grass, yelling, "Buster, coht possible, quickly putting distance between us

The hawk shrieked again, breaking free of her tresses and taking to the air

I didn’t have to be a hawk expert to see that she had locked in on her target and she was going to go for it It was Teaainst Tea to win It was no contest

I took off sprinting after Buster I had no plan in et too torn up from those talons For a brief second I wondered if she would be able to rip out my spine Her feet looked like they had knives on the ends of them, even fro in on Buster, but not as fast as winged death was

I was just about to give up hope when I saw Buster stop

His head disappeared for a second underground and then a rabbit ju Buster out of the hole and into a barking frenzy

The haooped down, nearly taking Peter’s head off, causing hiround

The hawk continued on, gliding just over Buster’s back to grab the rabbit and tackle it to the ground

Buster ca just two feet away fro down into a prone position

We all froze in place, watching the i out in front of us

Buster whined, his butt wiggling with the effort of his tail He clearly wanted to share the kill with the hawk, but was sained his feet again and tiptoed over, talking in a quavering, high-pitched voice

"That’s a good boy Come on, Buster, co pterodactyl alone Let her eat her fuzzy rabbit Look! I have some snake for you!"

Peter reached into his pocket and pulled out a hunk of his dinner

The hawk took one look at hi her beak in a silent screa out

"Don’t do dat! Put dat away!" shouted Bodo

Peter quickly threw it at the bird in a panic

Buster saw it leave Peter’s hand and followed its trajectory over his head, watching it land a couple feet on the other side of the hawk Buster crouched down even lower and ar believe it That stupid dog was going to try and take that snake nored me "Peter! Get him!" I whisper-yelled