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Had Shiv a slightly larger brain, perhaps she would have had the processing power to think through her decision before she made it. Coming down from her perch in the trees to land before a wolf who had attacked her only moments ago just to prove a point — it was something that an animal with more intelligence would consider rather moronic. Yet it made perfect sense to the little bird as she glared at the stranger, daring her to insult her grasp of the wolf's language again.

Instead, the woman rose herself from the ground and suddenly attacked again. Giving a shriek of surprise, the magpie leapt backwards, frantically taking off from the ground and grabbing ahold of a nearby thin branch, proceeding to then hang from it half-upside down. It was probably just the fear talking but she swore she had felt the hot breath of the wolf on her wings and the firm grasp of her claws wrapping around her body. Clicking her beak at the female as if scolding her, Shiv retorted, "Wolf has no manners."

Thinking for a moment, she wondered if she could take advantage of the wolf's hunger. "Perhaps wolf can eat from meat cache, instead of Shiv!"