Rising Sun Valley thin thread

He thought he heard something move and his head snapped up, silver eyes narrowing to sweep his surroundings. There wasn't supposed to be anything up here- except if a wolf had followed him...-what in the hell was that?

The female was small and sprightly, a dusky charcoal hue with large ears reminiscent of a coyote, a thin body, but the bushy tail of a wolf. Dovev would have normally scoffed at such an absurd monstrosity, but the male could see the hybrid recoil at the unexpected sight of him. So he could play this out.

With a smile coming onto his lips, he grinned back in response to her retraction, his ivory body contracting to crouch close to the ground. A brief pause to calculate his movements, and then the canine sprung forward, his paws carrying him in a barreling motion towards the stranger.