Totoka River game of survival

The men answer when called, she replied. Another step forward, this one accompanied by a bubbling growl. This problem is not simple, and I can handle it alone. Fighting, she assumed, would be too risky in her current state; although Ying wanted to begin a chase, she didn't want to endanger either of the present litters.

The guardian snapped her jaws and took another step, then another, until she was close enough to feel plumes of the woman's breath. She turned to Hua and squinted her eyes, silently asking her sister to remain uninvolved. Her attention shifted back to the stranger, and again, she snarled her final warning.