Shadowwyn Moor Where Oh Where, Art Thou

re·di·rec·tion  — noun
the action of assigning or directing something to a new or different place or purpose. 

redirected aggression occurs when a dog is aroused by or displays aggression toward a person or animal, and someone else interferes. The dog redirects her aggression from the source that triggered it to the person or animal who has interfered.

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she feels the small, squealing creature barrel into her side with a dull thump and her teeth sink in deep into her friend's hock.  from observation one might call the action mechanical, but with the nemesis there is no such thing: every action is instinctual but deliberate.  her glistening fangs meet each other with a solid, resounding cla-akk! as her prey escapes her clamped jaws.

she feels tongues of heat radiate from her hindquarters, tugging against the flesh and muscle that is taut as she stands firm.  but it does not matter.

she turns towards the crying one, hot breath and black soul, snapping her teeth shut around the thin flesh of an ear.  with a start the rabbit hearted girl flees, and with a sounding pop leaves the flesh dangling in her ear.

instinct tells her that this isn't over, because it isn't over until someone is dead but as her packmate slows to a stop she stays close behind.  bristling, tense, she accepts victory.

the white cloaked man, now red-and-white, turns towards her with soft, expressive eyes.  the stinging in her thigh is coming to the surface, and she whines as his tongue grazes over her wounds.  she was fine.  but him?  she works meticulously at his red-soaked fur, gently separating and working her tongue through her friend's dense pelt.

they needed to leave, rather than being exposed out in the open.  they needed to go back to the place-we-return-to.  anxiously, she cocked her head back towards the valley.  come.