A long stretch of highway lays before the headlights, it is out past the usual time for traffic. Horatio flicks a button to skip to a new song, going through his huge library of music before he settles on some Sinatra "That's Life". He pets Daemon as he nears the final trek into the forest, he looks for his turn in the night. He catches sight of it and heads down the road further into the forest until he reaches a parking area. Pulling into the area, he cuts off his lights and coasts into a spot.
Hoping to keep some eyes off him if he didn't shine them first.
He gets out and heads for the passenger door letting Daemon out before heading to the back hatch. Gathering up a backpack and a knife, Horatio closes up and heads to a trail. With Daemon not far, Horatio opens up his senses to look for clues to a meal. Eventually he finds the markings for a deer, soon he and Daemon are on the tracks for this creature. Daemon leads the way with his nose for a good while before he stops, Horatio crouches down with Daemon and looks ahead. Not far ahead is a mound moving slightly, with a sniff Horatio can smell the deer this close. Horatio gives Daemon the signal he is trained for and then Horatio sets himself up to ambush the deer.

Daemon moves to the sleeping deer and tries to wake it with a growl and a fierce feint of a lunge. The deer is on it's hooves before Daemon is close enough to begin. Paranoia giving the deer it's early alert, it dashes away from the beast and heads down hill towards Horatio who is sitting and waiting in the dark. With Daemon harrying it, it missed sight of Horatio. Before the deer could smell him, Horatio springs to action with his unnatural speed grabbing the creature and wrestling it down. The creature fights and cries for help but Horatio plunges his fangs into the creature and drinks in it's hot blood and counts it's heartbeats until it slows. Pulling away, Horatio lays the woozy creature down and backs away cleaning himself with supplies from the backpack.

A growl is all Horatio gets as a warning, he jumps back, ducks and catches the back paws of a puma to the head as it misses it's mark of his back and lands ready to pounce again. Dropping into a crouch just before the next pounce reaches and coming back up to flip the predator before it lands again having missed it's mark and being rolled in the air this time. The predator is dazed some from the barrel roll, before it can recover Daemon hits it from the side in full run. Horatio uses this distraction to add to the predators bad night and cuts the puma before it can get back up. The predator turned tail and ran from the losing battle, off to nurse it's cut and possible cracked ribs, Horatio runs after the predator catching it off guard with his speed, he pins it to the ground and plunges fangs into the predator for a second meal of the night.

Horatio makes sure the two animals are far enough apart and patched up before heading back towards the parking area, he still had a good drive to back to the city. He checks Daemon over before setting into the Jeep, cleans up some nicks here and there, checks for broken bones. Finding none, Horatio clips him in and gets into the Jeep driving by starlight until the main road. "Gotta love National Forests huh Daemon?" Horatio chuckles and pets Daemon as he heads back to Sacramento from his hunting trip.