Blacktail Deer Plateau bonecracker

Dante moved swiftly to avoid her teeth sinking into his tender flesh, rearing up on his hind legs and then, to her surprise, toppling onto his hip. This would've been the perfect moment to leap at him, yet the adult's awkward lack of grace stupefied her for a few beats. Only when he flung water in her face did she catch herself standing there and she growled thickly, mostly at her own delay.

"You falled down and went boom!" she crowed at him, her voice light for a moment before she grinned a wild, toothy grin at him and pounced at his thigh.