Wapun Meadow desperation

indra winced at her folly, cursing her fumble under her breath. as she looked around to see if reigi noticed her she was chilled by the approach of another wolf -- her hackles rose immediately and she gingerly rotated around to face him. from his conformation he was a year her senior, and he wore a soft golden mask she had never seen in a wolf before. she was too defensive to notice the warmth of his sunny gaze. since her encounter with ithrik, all men were suspect and enemies in her eyes.

her attention jostled to the killer, who was now only feet from her with entrails still hanging in thick gobs from her mouth. indra recoiled, casting her gaze between the two in slight fear. were they together? had she fallen unwittingly into some elaborate trap? like larus she had her suspicions and she stepped back slowly, backpedaling until she felt her hind end painfully bump against the rough edges of a douglas fir. she winced, a gasp of pain rocking her small body.

"what do you want?" she asked accusingly of the duo, only putting it together after she spoke that reigi was not accompanied by the strange man. she did not understand the gesture behind reigi placing the rabbit towards her -- just moments before she had been cleaving it into a thousand smithereens. "oh." she exhaled, finding she was wrong with her initial assumption. her gaze might have softened but she remained rigidly pressed up against the tree as much as her body could bear.