i got my mind made up and i can't let go.

Finley gave her new friend a smirk as he teased her, it only continuing when he offered her assistance getting home. He may have meant it earnestly, but to the force of nature that was the Blackthorn, the thought of needing someone to help her home because of a little shoulder ache was laughable.

She dug her nose deeper into doe's chest until she felt the chords that held up the beast's heart with her nose. Eagerly, the female pushed deeper, cutting those chords with her teeth until the organ was free for her to tear out. She had to actually shuffle backwards in order to free her face of the inside of the doe completely, so when she looked back as he spoke with the heart still clenched in her teeth, the blood was now up to her eyebrows.

Her gaze drifted down to the bit of liver he offered her and the corners of Fin's lips turned up in a grin. She tossed the heart lightly over to land with a thump within Koda's reach. "Trade ya--a bite for a bite," she said as she grabbed at the liver to sample a morsel.

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