Swiftcurrent Creek cowpoke

blood filled his mouth. colt dodged away but the teeth were snapping for —
"HA HA!" the man exulted. "WEYOOO REDBIRD, GET 'IM!"
sadey was tangled with hotfoot. colt made the incredibly mature, merciful decision then to recall his troops before they took wounds into winter, as he and she had just decided.
"give it up, yew stupid bastards! yer outnumbered with more on th'way!"
he dashed in again, directly for the side of ring-eye's neck, hoping to drag him and his attention away from red.