It's not long before the maushunds find some sort of trail. Large prints that look like they were left by a dinosaur -- or a giant chicken. The tracks lead deeper in the forest and soon, there is a dusty spot where the ground is disturbed and the shrubs are broken. There's blood on the ground, too; blood and feathers. There's also some sort of sticky black-blue substance that might also be blood, of another creature.

Not too far off, in a small clearing, the cockatrice can be seen. But it isn't alone. On it's back there is another... "thing". It has its teeth sunk into the cockatrice's neck, and the chicken monster has a few large chunks missing out of its tail and legs. Thankfully, it looks like the cockatrice still has the upper hand -- between its larger size and thick, scaly skin, it continues to fight even as it bleeds. It seems to be trying to get airborne, in order to dump the assailant on its back.

So much for a clean kill.

But it doesn't seem like the white creature is trying to just kill the cockatrice. It's trying to eat it.