Redtail Rise piercing

sunrise may have never known how much she was loved until this moment.

the stranger comes for her throat, and for a moment it feels as if everything slows in the moment. she can see his approach, ivories unsheathed as father and bloodspot come to her rescue. but they'd never reach her in time. she would be on her own to die if that was the path she let herself succumb to. but what of mother, father, sister? of everyone in the rise?

think think think -- no, act!

in perhaps a last moment of escaping the death grip, sunrise dips at the last moment but feels the teeth scrape and rip open a wound. the side bleeds, but no jugular is clipped. sunrise sees the chance to escape. and perhaps for her safety, she was supposed to take the opportunity.

but there is too much fight within her, so sunrise does not turn away. instead, she comes to change tactics and tries to slam him off balance, finding him too hard to try and grip at the angle she contorted herself into. hopefully, it would be enough to slow him down, as the prized leg was already lost.