Heron Lake Plateau and a bad little mama with her ass in my face

Having bowled the coyote over, its underside became vulnerable, but Niamh had more or less wanted to maim the coyote and let it gimp off, perhaps as a warning to its comrades- but when Tegan darted in and went for its throat, she figured they may as wel cut the losses and kill the damn thing. She was surprised and impressed by Tegan's audacity- she hadn't expected him to want to kill the coyote, given how he'd been pretty tame when it came to sparring before, but now she saw a different side to him, and it won him a few brownie points. 

The coyote snapped at him and she willed him to hang on- meanwhile, with its snapping jaws blocked by Tegan's head, she went straight for its vulnerable underside, intending to gut the creature where it lay squirming and flailing on the ground. Even if Tegan did let go, the coyote would not recover from one wound or the other.