Blacktail Deer Plateau hear this news, bear my gold

Steps behind her have alarms ring shrilly in her mind, the approach of a boy who moves to intercept her setting off another dozen. His tail is held high, everything about him screams dominance, and the girl's tail is quick to wrap tightly around her rear, falling motionless as she stares at the boy with wide eyes. He is young, a deep umber, and has yet to fill out into his adult form. He has none of the silent danger of her attacker, nor the frame, but the fear rises in her all the same, the sharp tang of it tangible. She replies then, softly yet firmly, "no." The fire-touched girl creeps backward, on the verge of fleeing, caught unawares and afraid.