Mountain lions are territorial, yes… but they settle those differences with combat. Clawing at one another and snarling in the direction of their opponent. Whoever loses is put to shame and goes on with their hunting, just with less ground to roam than before. This is the way things have always been; nestled in their biology the instinctual urge to defend their turf emerges from the emergent properties of their genetic code. Compounded by hundreds of thousands of generations of their species before them. For one cougar… this was expected. Do a little clawing, some growls, and body the other feline away. After all, they had the size and the experience over this challenger. Then they would go on with their life, lazing about in their domain. Carefree and dominant.

This was the end of that.

Unbeknownst to the defending cougar, fighting was not on the other’s mind. In fact, devouring was their prime directive. The only cougar that’d be fighting would be the ambushed one, struggling for their life in the gullet of a voracious feline. Getting the cougar into the other’s throat was simpler than it anticipated, and once the fur was coated in saliva they slid down nicely (even with all the clawing and scratching). Bit by bit, inch by inch, one mountain lion disappeared into the other until only a tail was left frantically swaying about.

Cannibalism occurs every so often in the animal kingdom, albeit usually in smaller scales with a vastly larger size difference… but this kind was novel. It was evolution at work. Survival of the fittest, with one handling digesting the other.

The cougar was fully inside the other now. Struggling to escape amid the flurry of digestive sounds bombarding every one of their senses. The digestive fluid was rising now. Things were getting dark.

As reality blurred and the fight to survive faded, the cougar, trapped in the depths of the other’s stomach wondered… were they the first?

This is my lovely friend,  feralpuppy's side of a trade that we put together a few months ago. I gotta tell you… (and I know I've already said it, but it deserves to be said again) I am in LOVE with this piece, my gosh~
Don’t know how you push so many of my buttons at once but you may as well have slammed yourself all over a control panel ‘cause this is superb. I appreciate you taking the time to do this with me, and I look forward to more projects in the future. Thanks again.

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