Moonspear bear necessities

For all the relative stillness that came to settle, her heart was still pounding and reaching for the chase--and all the vicious satisfaction any success could bring. Yet Alya's touch kept her where she was, grounded before the edge of something potentially reckless.. though her hackles were stuck upright and tension was manifesting in the grit of her teeth still anyway. Ame looked between the two remaining pieces of the cerberus in reluctant agreement. She exhaled a great sigh, and would wait.

It was not a thought made lightly, or happily, but leading either Alya or Hydra to harm was not her intention. Neither was a solo flight plausible, they wouldn't allow it.. and very much like their father did, they reminded her to think of not only right here, and also the path ahead as well.

"Are you both alright..? And what about Korei and Teran-" she clipped her jaws shut and whipped her head towards the depths when she heard the voice calling out from within. What now..? Another of those deafening roars chilled her blood and she balked out of the way of the large predator's return with a snarl. It left her torn between startled and angry, she couldn't take her eyes off the bear.. its motions were far too unsettling, and simply did not make sense to her despite how purposeful it still seemed. She could find no reason why and before she could uproot, she drank in sight of the newest twist--an edge, and just like that.. it was out of her view. Shit.

She sprung forward to move to the hidden ledge, desperate to get her eyes back on it.

It was a considerable, unforgiving drop.. and at the bottom was the bear.

Relief was quick but incomplete. It wasn't dead. Not yet. She hissed her low snarl of dissatisfaction as she turned away from the edge to face her daughters and shook her head. Fleeing Lyra was still safe from it, but Amekaze did not trust it so readily and this got her tail lashing again--agitated. She wasn't leaving until it was absolutely, entirely dead. Nothing less. She liked her odds against a bear far greater now that it had dropped off a cliff, and wordlessly, she slid into motion.

Carefully she sought a wider, gentler pathway down to where the addled beast had landed and closed in steadily--yet slowly, still technically waiting it out and technically only seeking to watch it more closely without any vegetation blocking her view still. All the while, she saw it suffer between picking her footholds. It struggled and moaned. Life had to be fading fast.. but not fast enough.