Sunset Valley It might've been the neighbor's kid, but I have my suspicions.

thus released, heda skittered out from under the heavy stranger and glared his way, ears splayed. in the next moment, however, she had drawn herself up with a pride pulled from her time watching the alpha male of duskfire.
heda thought herself very gracious as she gave a single stilted nod in the man's direction.
she stalked away after that, the brilliant stripe along her coat shining as blood over the snow.