deathwound

Marie Christophe was speaking of a gamekeeper's report, a Mayday tale of a strange creature glimpsed in the woodland, shot at, likely dealt a deathwound to judge by the copious trail of strangely colored blood it left in its wake before blood trail and creature both vanished utterly at the margin of the same lake of Marie's tearful telling, but George heard only his own voice, explaining things to Dr. Toombs:

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005