Undefeatable Courage

.....Senteu lifted up his hand and courageously thrust it deep inside the mouth of the big cat. It moved to close its mouth to clip off the young man’s limp and separate it from the rest of his body but to its dismay it could not. However much it tried it could not get its jaws back together.
For unknown to the lion, Senteu’s hand held a short stick that he expertly placed inside the mouth of the lion to keep the jaws apart and hold them in position; the upper jaw up and the lower jaw down so that it could not close its mouth again.
As the lion struggled with the stick in its mouth, Senteu took advantage of the beast’s momentary lapse in concentration to reach out for his spear one last time.