Spotted Runner

Before the hole
The Spotted Runner is the fastest animal on the island, with a speed that can reach up to 60 miles per hour. Their blue fur with black dots makes them almost surreal when they run. In size they can reach 2’7 (tail not taken into account) in length and 1’7 in height. They are omnivorous, eating anything from plants to little beasts or insects, catching up with a prey is usually never an issue. To insure their survival their speed is a primary advantage, as they are very fragile and if they are attacked by surprise they rarely make it out alive, same if they are injured. They prefer to live where there is space, in plains with a view that wouldn’t let a predator catch them off guard. They are very friendly to animals that don’t present signs of hostility, often cuddling with them. When they do that they tend to heal wounds and appease stressed or anxious beings, due to a dust carried on their fur on the black dots. Those black dots represent an estimation of the remaining life time of the Spotted Runner, they tend to lose them when they use the dust to help other, but also when they procreate. You see when mating, the both individuals will sacrifice several of their dots and make a pile of it on the ground, they will then cover it, from it will grow a newborn. When Runners are out of spot, they die out quickly, becoming sick, unable to run and tiring more and more. Their behavior varies from one to another, some are very lonely and tend to do their life away from their pears, and some prefer living in groups. But even the one that live their life on their own can enter a community during the mating season, during which their ventral fur goes from white to deep blue, indicating their search for a partner.

After the hole
With the hole coming to be, there is a distinction between those who haven’t lost their spot yet, that tries to avoid it at all cost, getting away from all life forms, and even getting hostile when they encounter other, and those that lost every spot, that are weak and tired, living often together, peacefully but unable to run as they were before. It is a painful sight to see those majestic animals down to a state of endless exhaustion. Some rare individuals with dots still try to help the other by giving them some of their dots, most of the time to no avail. Some of the non-dotted ones just give up, laying on the ground and spending their days sleeping, some even let themselves fall into the hole.