Ankyra Sound [VS] I tried to kill the pain, I bought some wine and hopped a train

Raleska may have been Caiaphas' daughter, but she did not have the woman's skill in her craft. Firefly, after a few easy parries with his jaws, sent her tumbling to the floor.

A flashback then, of blurring red..

Blixen's teeth on her neck..

A scintillating arc of blood, against cold stone. His eyes, going soft, dimming.

"NO!" Raleska yelled, her ferocity suddenly renewed. She wrenched hard as she could to free herself, struggling against the phantoms of her own traumatic memory that told her erroneously the jaws of her packmate were the hungering maws of her enemy. She wasn't Raleska any longer, she was a cornered animal -- with spittle flying the girl backed up and broke from Firefly's grasp, a new burst of snarls rumbling from her throat.