Bearclaw Valley king pest

then the fight has come closer to her and she is cringing, snarling, folding into herself as the giant man just misses crushing her under his massive paws. her eyes are cold fire as he hurls her mother up and then aside, and she feels the thud of Astara's impact in her bones. she is angry, then, a kind of fury that she's never experienced before.

Avicus hurries over to the fallen dark woman, beetle forgotten. she noses a little worriedly at her mother's fur, and then obeys the growl immediately, following after Astara back to where she belongs.

she does not do so, however, without a parting glance behind her at the retreating form of the mountainous wolf. he is persona non grata now, enemy number one, and she will not forget the injury he has given her mother today—nor will she forgive. at least not easily.