Blacktail Deer Plateau lord of wolves

so much to keep track of!! let me know if i missed anything. i cant get rolls to work in tabletop *flips table* so... i rolled in discord!  check it out for your hit/miss.

 

he had little peace before dogs came. one scurried about him like a cockroach, howling. he whirled about her with a savage snarl, decay and viscera matting his muzzle as he rose from the dirt-ridden cache and lunged towards her. already the dog had alighted upon his flank with a sting of teeth; shardik swung a massive paw towards her and flung her from him.

his defenses were soon overrun by dogs; with a squeal he trounced in circles around them, hateful eyes fastened as they barked and darted to and from him. next his gaze fell on ruenna and he staggered towards her with a snarl, his paws missing as he swiped for her --

no matter, there would be other dogs --

and there were; next came kavik, barreling towards him all teeth and snarls. shardik rose with a bellow but the dog had pulled away and put enough distance between them that the leviathan had to lurch forward and scythe the air with a forepaw, aiming to send him flying alongside the first dog to assail him.

he might have snickered his pleasure to see the dog catapult in the air, were it not for the sharp sting of pain that lanced his forearms; liri, resolute and full of teeth, had sunk her fangs into him. shardik shrieked and wheeled back, wringing his hands out in front of him with berserk energy to escape her. guttural as his snarls were, his onslaught came fiercer; with another earth-shattering roar the beast stumbled and raked his claws deliberately down her spine - hoping to repay her in kind for the torment she had dealt him.

his victory was shortlived; a dog snapped at his heels in feints, and stupidly the bear followed them. with each snap the dog darted back further, and shardik lunged but missed corvus entirely, for another dog had attached itself to his weakened hind-leg and shook with a fervor that sent shardik rattling.

he rose upright in a scream and whirled upon grezig, a clawed mitt sent searing towards her face -- narrowly missing her with a hairs-breadth that sent shardik to grave disappointment. seeking some object in which to redirect his failure shardik came across issun and lunged towards him, aiming another belligerent smack the dog's way as if swatting a fly from his flank.

yet these were no flies: they had sharp fangs, and quick wits -- shardik already felt his strength ebbing and the blood coursing freely from him. with a wearied bellow he snorted and started to blindly trudge a retreat, a hellish squeal escaping his muzzle as he began to bulldoze towards the borders.