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Submitted to Contest #63
The darkness came quickly that year. For Ava and her kind, winter migration was a fact of life. It started with the constant twilight when the air chilled to the point where one’s breath could be seen. That’s when the food started getting scarce. Many of the small creatures Ava fed on went into hibernation during the winter. This left limited prey options for the crow sized carnivore. For Ava, the twilight was dangerous, and the darkness even more so. Were she to stay and lay her eggs in the Alaskan forests, her eggs woul...
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