Heron Lake Plateau And hell I took you up on all your threats to leave

EEEEEE-ris!!!!! <3 Thanks for joining! lol, Niamh got a 5 too...but feel free to fling the coyote back at her whenever you want.

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Niamh circled the coyote, trying to figure out exactly which way would be the best to dispatch it- and then where would she bury it afterwards, so that if anyone became desperate, they could dig it up for a mid-winter snack. Coyotes didn’t taste good- no predator seemed to taste goo, but that didn’t discourage Niamh from wanting to destroy anything that could potentially be a threat to the pack, its puppies or the caches that they’d worked so hard to maintain. It wasn’t that Niamh was outraged by the coyote, though, or had any reason to hate them. It was a game to her, more than anything- begun by silly childhood stories where the coyote was the villain and the wolf was always the victor.

Still, at least this one wasn’t just an amusement- she’d stopped it from getting away with a decaying rabbit from one of their caches. When Eljay joined her, she wondered if he too enjoyed hunting down and bullying coyotes- but that didn’t exactly seem like something that was in his nature. As far as she could tell, he was probably one of the nicest Blackthorns on the list of them, right up there with Elwood. She nodded toward the coyote and was about to explain that it had tried to rob them when it lurched at the newest threat and grabbed a hold of the thick fur and skin at Eljay’s chest. Perturbed by its audacity, Niamh moved forward with a growl.

With the coyote in a fixed position, she could snap at its shoulders, but getting it to release Eljay without simply grabbing it and tugging on it was the trick, as it could cause more damage if she grabbed it by the scruff and pulled- if it held on. Eljay was snapping at the coyote, but with the angle of the way they were, he couldn’t get a good hold. Niamh got an idea.

She didn’t pull, when she caught the coyote’s tail in her mouth- instead, she simply bit down over and over again, clenching her jaws and partially severing the coyote’s tail in hopes it would let go of Eljay. She figured he could handle what he had, so she wasn’t in any immediate concern- but if there was any way to get it to let go of Eljay and get its attention, she figured mangling its tail was the way to do it.

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