Ocean's Breath Plateau sweet as brandy wine

he invited her to play, or so he said. but he had mentioned blood and that was commonplace when she had played games with her brothers; blood and bruises, and a fiendish sort of frenzy between them.

perhaps she was not so far from fighting all this time.

sulukinak did not wait for his prompt, and was moving even as dutch bowed before her with invitation. she moved swiftly towards him and aimed her snout to the soft flesh at one armpit, snaking, snapping.

if she caught him she would pinch and pull and make him bleed; if she failed, the momentum would carry her in to a zig or a zag as she sought another opportunity.