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Tik had made one move in good faith.  It was an invitation, a chance for this other member of the same generation to work with him... to survive together, figuring out the details as they went along.  As the stone smacked into the wall beside Tik's head and he saw the expression on his sibling's face, he understood the answer to his offer and his eyes narrowed even more as he moved.

A sudden lunge, quick and quiet since he had moved the bones big enough to slip or trip on out of the way.  In his mouth was a bone shard that he had just stopped chewing on.  In each hand was a serviceable bone that would have some use once sharpened.  He only touched the floor of that cave twice before he was dashing out the passage into the main chamber.  But, his mouth and one of his hands were empty.  He had used his lunge to close the distance between him and his sibling.  Then, he had spit the bone in his mouth into his sibling's eyes at close range just as he drove the less promising bone toward his fellow youth's leg on his way by.

If not for that treacherous idiot's interference, Tik could have left that place with three or four bones good enough to work with.  Now, he had only one and he was probably going to get caught up in whatever happened as a result.  He hadn't aimed for anything vital with that bone.  Even if he had the strength to deliver a killing blow, making their elder grumpy wasn't likely to result in their deaths so it wasn't so serious as that.  The strike was a punishment for turning on Tik.  Two words came to mind unbidden.

"Traitor, coward."  He hissed softly as he emerged into the main cavern, trembling with rage as his stomach rumbled again.  Chewing bone shards hadn't done much beyond buy time.  He needed to hunt, and soon.