Stone Circle bibbity boppity boo

Nanook, too, heard the commotion and abandoned her patrol without a clench in her chest and one word on her mind - the pups. The river. The snaking water sprang into sight and she pushed through the final stretch of trees in time to see a large man hurdle through the water toward something she couldn't see - 

Her narrowed eyes flitted upon the prize, and her stomach lurched. Nanook leapt to the shoreline and slipped upstream from where the earthen man sought purchase of the bobbing blob of stony fur. With silent intensity, she slid into the water, to avail herself to catch the child from should the man's teeth skim and miss.