Redtail Rise i've been watching him for my entire life

she doesn't know why she feels the need to test him, but—

'hhow me, she says. and lunges toward his foreleg, hoping to seize it—gently but firmly—in her jaws and knock him off kilter.

he's got size on her, but she has speed, and she will see what he has to offer. not that she's a marvelous fighter by any means, but she's scrappy, and she won't give in easily.

jaws move, waiting for the feel of bone and flesh beneath teeth.