Nocturne Summit New Bohemia

By grabbing at his leg, Wildfire put herself right in danger's way. Before she could shred his skin to pieces and crush his bones to dust, "Goober" suddenly tipped sideways, partially yanking the leg out of her fierce hold. Simultaneously, he lunged at her face, his fangs sinking into her cheek just above and below her eye (mercifully sparing the eyeball itself). The shock and pain caused her jaw to slacken and his partially mangled forelimb dropped from it as Wildfire scrambled backward again, blood blurring her vision as the cold air stung the broken skin on the right side of her face.

The physical pain gave her a certain sense of clarity and suddenly she saw the wolf as himself again, a stranger painted with contrasting tones and cowering against the stony ground. Breathing hard, Wildfire stared at him from beneath the curtain of blood, the one eye blinking rapidly until she finally just closed it in defeat. Slowly, her limbs began to shake, then her entire body was wracked with shudders. She sat heavily, feeling suddenly... not sad, no longer angry, but simply overwhelmed.