The Heartwood my irregular heartbeat is starting to correct itself

Well shit, that wasn't part of the plan.
The sight of his new friend fighting to shake a vicious raccoon of her face was, despite being a posible outcome he had considered since the beginning, not the one he wanted (NOR RAVEN OBVS lol). 
With his ears flattening back and his lips curling back to reveal his own furious snarl, the young Ostrega threw himself in the line of fire, his teeth finding their mark in the nape of the critter's neck. Inmediately as he felt the animal's flesh in his mouth he clenched his jaws and tried, not to pull or shake the animal off since he was afraid that attempting to do so might harm more Raven who was still in the raccoon's grip, but to choke the pest from behind or collapse its spine. 
Anything to get it to open its damn mouth.