Noctisardor Bypass the universe had to fall apart

When her father pushed her, Grub didn't so much think as react instinctively. Forgetting entirely about her pursuit of the beetle, she sprang at his foreleg. Her own stubby forelegs flailed, trying to grasp and then pin his paw so she could swoop in and bite it. What she did with it beyond that, even the puppy didn't know. It was all a rather automatic and mindless process, the movement triggering the predatory responses innate to her species, no matter how young.