Gilded Bay Oceanside Reservation

Mitanni continued to watch the grey wolf as he reclined back on his haunches to sit and answer her question helpfully. Though he didn't offer any further advice for how she ought to go about extracting the crab from its shell, just knowing they were edible was good enough news for her. It meant easy meals here on the coastline, and that bolstered her mood considerably.

If only she could figure out how to get the crab out... A soft frown formed on her brow as she lowered her dark amber eyes to the crab again, which had by this time righted itself as was trying to sneak back into the tide pool. Parting her jaws, she lowered her head to try and bite at it, but even as she moved the crab did as well, brandishing its pincers defensively.

She quickly pulled her head back and snapped her teeth closed, eyeing the crab with irritation. Since when did it have those pincers? And why wasn't it just sitting there like it did when it was in the tide pool? Her eyes darted up and over at the blue-eyed wolf, feeling self-conscious that he was watching this happen, and again she licked at her lips. "Does it hurt if they...?" Mitanni asked, her words tapering off thinking he could fill the rest in. She figured it would be important to know whether she could possibly get hurt before she tried to claim her "easy" meal.