Redhawk Caldera There's a shining in the shadows

sorry for makin this and then abruptly losing every iota of my spar thread muse XD if I end up going too long again y'all are more than welcome to skip my dumb self and start making assumptions

She had a gaggle of them, she could hear, and launched in without bothering to determine the interest level of each. Killdeer she acknowledged with a small bump of her muzzle, but nothing more.

She didn't really care if they didn't want to get anything out of it - the ones who did would. Some of you are interested in sparring. Play fighting is fine, but when you face off with something dangerous, they won't be playing. So neither are we.

Fennec crouched, lifting her lips to show her teeth in something not quite like a smile. As she did, she listened, shifting her weight defensively. Who's first?

She wouldn't go hard enough to injure, but she wasn't planning on holding back. This was a lesson they needed to learn - that sometimes fights hurt, and got messy, and desperate. Just like she had.