Blacktail Deer Plateau Don't let the sun outshine you

Despite the context of the given phrase, Diane slacked her steps in a pause at the unfamiliar voice. Her head turned, eyeing an aurelian wolf as he prowled forward, his focus driven on something behind her. His exact words registered to her then, and the small wolf danced sideways, carrying her weight on her toes as the slim lie of her fur puffed out in fright as she tried to locate the "reptile", he had said. She expected a lizard, something she did not fear, but instead her eyes met the long, pinstriped body of a relatively harmless species of snake, and knowing only of seasnakes (and how fatally poisonous they were), her abrupt desire to avoid it heightened to a near crippling level.

Diane gave out an embarrassingly shrill bark— a squeal, if you would— and she backpedaled further, turning frightened eyes on her would-be savior. She was suddenly afraid for him, but mistook his composed fixation on the snake for the certain skill of dispatching one, and didn't encourage him to stay back. Even though it was her inclination. He simply looked like he knew what he was doing. Instead she offered a concerned cry: "oh, please be careful!" 

She became aware then that the fierce beating of her heart was quickly draining away the flowering happiness she had felt earlier. She had never met one of her siblings, but had heard the story that before her eyes had even opened, her brother had been victim to a seasnake that had slithered in their den and bitten him before it could be killed. This was the story told to all children so that they understood the danger of seasnakes, but the vastly naive Diane wasn't particularly aware of that. She watched on bated breath, eyes wide as she watched the golden knight reveal his level of snake dispensary...

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