Bramblepoint loyalty, loyalty, loyalty

The coyote attempted to dodge her by whirling and shooting back the way she had come, yet she found her path blocked by an even larger and blacker wolf. A sharp, snarling cry rose up from her throat and burst from her lips as she fell beneath the second attacker, even as the first barreled into the fray.

Towhee ended up missing the dropped coyote and accidentally smashing into the other wolf instead. Since she was the lighter, smaller of the two, she crumpled to the ground, partially on top of their common enemy. She found herself violently shoved aside as the coyote kicked out from underneath her and then slipped to her three feet and began to run.

The bewildered Xi tried to recover as swiftly as possible by bouncing back onto her feet. She shot the stranger a quick, inscrutable look before taking off after the coyote, who had plunged deeper into the forest again. Towhee wouldn't let her get away this time and made a heated pursuit, largely forgetting about her unfamiliar cohort and deaf to Raven's cries of, "Towhee, no!" at her back.