Redhawk Caldera [m] This is the War Room

Fox kept her pinned in place for a moment or two before relenting and nudging Wildfire to her feet. Feeling a bit breathless and jellylike from her giggle fit, she nonetheless blinked to rapt attention when her mother mentioned an important lesson. "We don't always win," her mother noted and the pup's mouth straightened into a contemplative line. She nodded decisively to show she understood. That was the part that made being a Warrior a bit scary: one day, she would have to face an opponent who would almost certainly have an advantage over her.

Wildfire felt a mild shudder pass through her when Fox mentioned saving her life or the lives of others'. "How do you surrender?" she wondered quietly, head tilting to the side. Surely laughing herself silly wasn't an appropriate way to demonstrate surrender, so what was the protocol for something as important (so life-or-death) as that?