A few days before he was startled awake by hens raising a ruckus, Sonny had seen a mongoose standing on tiptoe a short distance away from the coop where, of late, Sonny's hens had been laying every day. When he saw the lone mongoose, Sonny knew its pack was nearby.
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My friends, there's another micro-fic contest in the Freewriters' Community. You're invited to tell a story in PRECISELY 50 words this weekend. The prompt is pack, here's the link with the details, please participate if you can.
For this prompt, I thought of mongooses lurking outside a chickens' coop.