Role

Chapter 2

"Wait! Wait, Rashaze! I'm coming too!"
Renize scrambled after the disappearing figure of her twin brother, tail flailing
in the dying desert sunlight. The boys always left her behind, and after the
torments of the previous day, she wasn't going to stand for it. They'd see she
was just as good as they were.

When she finally caught up to them, the group was circled around something, taking
turns hitting it with a sand-bleached length of wood. Renize pushed her way into
the circle and cried out in dismay. It was a hare, injured badly but still
struggling to escape. They weren't trying to eat it, they were just beating the
poor thing out of cruelty.

"Rashaze! Stop it!"

The boys whirled around to face her, and the group's leader gestured at Rashaze
with the stick. "Your stupid sister needs to go home. Get her out of here."

"Go home, Renize," said Rashaze, coldly.

Renize ground her hindpaws into the sand and stubbornly refused to move. The boy
with the stick swung it around and paced behind Renize, then swung it hard into
her tail. The shock sent her sprawling, and when Renize was able to look behind
herself, her tail hung at an odd angle, broken.