Redsand Canyon days of creation

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renard’s curiosity had initially been for colin, of course. he was the one they hadn’t spoken to at length, even seen beyond those brief glimpses in the pass and with riley. but what they knew about finley was more enticing than what they didn’t know about colin.

she stopped behind him. head lifted, eyes meeting theirs. and in front of her, colin bristled to life: the strange reticence of earlier gone as though it had never been, replaced with raised hackles and curled lips. renard smiled. so he was hiding something under there after all.

their tail did not curl higher; their fur laid flat on their back. displays were a waste of time, a direct indication of intentions they preferred to avoid. instead, they looked from finley to colin and back, as quiet as they had been moving through the trees before.

when they struck, stepping around to the side not guarded by colin, it was with the sharp and sudden uncoiling of a snake; no growl, only lips peeling back from teeth, open jaws aimed directly for the join of finley’s neck and shoulder.