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She missed her target. Instead of feeling her jaws close around flesh and bone, Towhee instead experienced teeth sinking into her own skin. Fortunately for her, the thick folds of her furry scruff took the brunt of it, though if she didn't move away and fast, her opponent's fangs might sink deeper and hit something critical. Swiftly, the Xi reacted by dropping to the ground and forcefully rolling like an alligator. She tore herself free—she could smell her own blood, which turned her stomach—and flipped twice before regaining her feet with a noisy grunt.

Ignoring the searing pain at the back of her neck, Towhee used her new perpendicular position to her advantage. With a savage snarl that ripped from her throat, the Xi took a page out of the stranger's book and lunged for a spot just below the she-wolf's nape, near the pulse point in the side of her own neck.