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Sassafras had only been about a second away from nudging Towhee away from her in order to curb her insistence towards cannibalism when the little ball of pudge and fluff relented all on her own and stepped away. The dark adult tilted her head slightly with a twitch of her tall ears and beat her tail against the stone that much harder, following the tiny Firebird’s focused line of sight. She suddenly winced again, but it had nothing to do with pain this time.
 
Instead of simply allowing Towhee to sink her paws, claws, and needle-sharp teeth into the feathery fur of her practically billowing tail, Sassafras leaned and dragged herself about her hindquarters with her forelegs. She stuck out a single paw to bat at the puppy very gently, aiming to distract her yet again, but she couldn’t find it in herself (yet) to stop thwacking her tail around. Sassafras was happy, after all. It hardly mattered that she stood to be chewed on.