Arrow Lake To measure the meaning can make you delay

she'd come to understand, more or less, where the borders lay. this made echoing her mother's actions in patrolling them easier, though she stayed back out of sight, knowing well enough she'd be in for it if found wandering the edges of the territory alone. she was working on her sneaking, and thought she'd gotten rather good, and so completely missed the appearance of a stranger some distance away. 

when he called out, however, she stood bolt upright. "yeah!" she called back, already beelining toward the sound. she stopped a few meters back, clearly wary, but unwilling to let him know that. "if come over border I bite you." she puffed out her chest, asserting her claim here, completely forgetting the part where Aure tended to ask what the stranger wanted and jumping straight into the bitey part.