She waited a long moment, then leaned in slightly, listening for breath. When she couldn't hear any, she pressed two bloody fingers to her neck to feel for a pulse. Her fingers slipped, but it didn't matter, she was gone.

The knowledge overwhelmed her then and she quickly had to stumble aside as she emptied the contents of her stomach on the ground nearby. All she could think was how weak she must look to those watching...tossing her cookies over a girl she didn't even know.

When the shaking stopped and she once again trusted her legs to support her, she rose and evaluated the bear carcass. She remembered that bear meat was very fatty and that would be very helpful in the coming days of near-starvation.

She used some moss to clean the blood off her knife, then attempted to cut off a large hunk of meat to take with her for future meals. She wanted to get away from the scene as quickly as possible knowing that they would want to collect the body. But she didn't want to risk any of her competitors stumbling across this meal ripe for the taking, so she took the nearest questionable looking berry and smeared it over the carcass where she'd skinned it and hoped it would be toxic to anyone that might stumble upon it with an empty belly.