Wild Berry Meadow ludus

The pain was great, and would be greater still when he set her shoulder right, but she knew from her lessons that afterwards the pain would diminish. So she felt relief as much as wariness as he stepped closer, and were it a different time, she might have noticed the metallic glint of his eyes or the handsome line of his jaw. Instead she squeezed her eyes shut as his jaws closed around her ankle. 

He pulled, pain sparking white-hot across her vision. This time she did not scream, but gasped in anguish until she felt the alignment correct. Stop! she cried, breathless, tears pricking the corner of her eyes.