OOC: No worries my sweet! <3 I know you've been busy
Never had she been compelled to fight like this over a portion of meat. It had been her place within her mountain pack to wait until it was turn to feed. Even in the Vale there was no cause for conflict when feeding. There was an order that all knew and had become accustomed to. But this… this savagery was something new to her altogether. To witness the hunger of wolves was one thing, but to be on the end of it, to be that force that kept one from filling their belly, was an entirely different danger altogether. And yet, she would not back down from it, regardless of how she had come to favor the Creek male. Regardless of how senseless this scrap was to her eyes.
Granted a moment by her blow to recoil, she stepped back with but a paw and raised her head defiantly, yet the simply act elicited a great deal of pain from the wound left from his bite. Her neck was throbbing beneath the slick fur, and like an itch it crept outward from its source.
She watched with wide eyes as he braced himself again, wild eyes dancing between her and the kill perhaps weighing his chances to steal the carcass. But she could not have that scenario play out. Carefully, with teeth bared, she lowered her head over the kill then slapped a heavy paw over its head as she plunged her muzzle into its open throat. Her eyes never strayed from the tense male, even as she felt around the cooling throat for a favorable portion of its flesh. It felt like minutes, but no more than seconds passed as she ripped out her muzzle with flesh in maw and tossed it purposefully toward the angered male. She stifled a wince as best as she was able, yet there was no denying the pain brought on by his bite. But she could not rest, not when the air was this charged with tension.
Lapping her quivering muzzle, she inched alongside the lying meat, raising her heavy paw and placed it instead along the belly of the prey. And there she stood over it, tensed and watchful, leaving the throat and chest open to take but guarded its belly as the treasure it was. |