In secret she climbs up out of the abyss.
Graceful paws tiptoe over tumbled boulders beneath the pale winds of dawn.
Tawny-coated stalker sniffs the breeze. Relaxed, she strolls between oaks, around clumps of chaparral. Lithe body snakes through spiky grasses. Amber eyes searching landscape spy her prey. In ghostly silence, she watches.