Shadewood Bluer than a butterfly

They tumble into a writhing mess of limbs and snarls, the girl felled first by sister then by her brothers’ kicking.

A gentler soul she may have been before the spill of sister’s blood, in the warming brace of a parent’s love. But Yakona was Sivaak’s daughter, a girl born to cold and ice, and the muradoii sought to punish her sister’s surprise attack with pinching teeth, not yet sharp enough to damage. Still, there is a harshness to her joy, a wild instinct, and when she has regained her footing she attempts to subdue all three pups; lording over them like the muradoii queen.