operation little birdie

It seemed as if both the lupine and the vulpine had their minds set on what they believed to be true for every member of a specific species. Foxes were thieving nuisances, and wolves were blood thirsty killers. Such statements seemed fair enough in the man's mind, though, in truth, both were thinking like close-minded bigots. Being rather prideful, in the sense that he would never back down from a fight, Kove would never admit to his views being incorrect. “Your stench is worse than that of a corpse,” he informed her, exaggerating quite a bit. The man's face wrinkled from a sense of contention alone, but it was gone in a blink of an eye. He wouldn't allow the fox to get to him, and calmed himself back down in a breeze. “We all kill to eat,” the wolf pointed out to her. “Some kill to defend what is theirs, and others to protect those they love. When it comes to killing, foxes are no different.” His statement didn't exactly have anything to back it up, since it was his first time speaking to a fox that he could recall. Still, common sense told him that killing was one in the same, whether you be a wolf, a fox, or even a tiny spider. No one got away without killing in life, as everyone needed to eat and defend themselves.

Kove contemplated accepting the challenge laid out before him, but in the end he chose not to. While getting into a tree didn't seem as if it would be too hard if you had a bit of leverage, he didn't want to risk making a fool out of himself. His want to keep his pride fully intact brought him down a different path, one that he preferred much more anyways. “I'd rather not,” he answered, indirectly brushing the trap she'd attempted to set aside. “I'll just wait down here. Eventually, you'll come to me. Lucky for you, I don't really have anywhere to be right now.” In all truthfulness, he did need to be somewhere, but the man had chosen to procrastinate. Trying to lure the fox down and out of the tree kept his mind occupied, and a distraction was just what he needed to calm his nerves.