Northstar Vale take control

He landed hard just next to the woman as she whirled around to face Xi'nuata. Her sudden movement had torn his target from his trajectory and he ended up snapping his teeth just shy of it, grazing the skin of her neck. A wild snarl tore from his jaws and he righted himself to swing his head back and sink his fangs into her spine, but within seconds she had darted away - Raheerah again missed his target, uttering a roar of frustration. He adjusted his head so that they fell within his sights again, and saw his companion falling into step behind the intruder. The oily beast joined her, regardless of the summoning she sent back to him. But he recognized her plans, and so he joined the chase on the opposite side of the female.

She was still well ahead of them, having had a jumpstart from bolting away like a frightened deer - coward that she was. Raheerah lunged forward, taking the earth beneath his paws and bursting after the two. They moved in such a way that the intruder had been positioned on his visible side, and the woods he ran alongside fell outside of his vision. Paws pounded the earth, relentless, and he sought to close the distance between he and the intruder as well as Xi'nuata. His body was thick, massive; he had a hefty weight to carry along with him and so it took the beast longer to reach her, but once he had, he immediately began to close in on her, shoving his shoulder against her flank in an attempt to knock her off balance.