give my heart a place to rest

Their eyes locked and it was in that moment that her calm, collected (though insistent) demeanor dropped. Instead, her muzzle wrinkled and lips lifted to reveal yellowed teeth in a truly ugly and equally terrible snarl as she regarded the frumpy little shithead. Her eyes gained a malignancy rarely shown and while she knew that disputes were not meant to harm one another, like hell she would allow a newcomer to challenge her like this. 

Head struck forward like a snake at his own muzzle but the movement and the sound of her teeth crashing together was meant to distract, instead bringing a sizable and heavy paw to smack him across the face, to disorient and dizzy should it connect. If not, she had other methods of subduing but this one was of a bedraggled look and likely would not last all too long. The bear-like creature would show him what it was to incite her into such a dance, though in the end, they would remain packmates and in all likelihood, they would work together better in the future for this occurrence.