Introduction: Venn and Guff were born ready for the hunt, as were a thousand generations of the reptilian skern before them. But the balance of power is changing. Their favourite prey, the mouse-like levin, are organising... and retaliating. When the two young predators risk a forbidden trek away from their clan, they uncover worrying evidence of a wider union of their enemies. The call of the hunt grows strong within them, but they must accept exile to reach out on their own and face the mysterious heart of their kind’s troubles - Jiharu. A novella-length fantasy of seventeen chapters....