[ --long and sleek feathers of icy wings, folded and glistening in the torchlight, the hindquarters feline on a scale far greater than a mere housecat's... the great hawk's head, wisps of frost trailing into the air around it, bowed with piercing eyes at the ground... ]
[ ... where a ball of fur, honking and beeping, frantically wriggles between icy talons pinning it to the mud. ]