A woman walks into a Seattle bar on the night of the winter solstice. She reflects on the people sitting around her as well as the anticipation they feel in response to the holiday season. She contemplates her intense loneliness as she waits intently for someone. Soon, two beautiful women walk into the bar. The narrator experiences an animalistic attraction to one of the women: this is the woman that she has been waiting for. The women move out of the narrator's line of sight, but a commotion by the bathroom leads the narrator to go and investigate. The narrator runs into the woman she feels drawn to. The woman asks why the narrator has been watching her, but the narrator struggles to answer convincingly. The narrator introduces herself as Onca. The woman leaves Onca, but not before saying that she will see Onca soon. Both women know that Onca will soon follow after her.

When she walks into the bathroom, Onca finds another woman collapsed in the bathroom. Onca reveals that the woman's soul was drained by the woman Onca had her eyes on and that her target is a living legend, Deer Woman. Onca leaves the bar to find Deer Woman. Deer Woman waits outside and chases after her, but Onca soon reveals that she too is an ancient being, an embodiment of the Panthera onca, the jaguar. It is now Onca who is hunting Deer Woman. In the end, Onca lets Deer Woman live— for this year at least, leaving herself something to hunger after.