Blackbeak Bluff but now you're in love, you know

the male pulled closer yet again; in warning, she lifted her lips and the sinister gleam of a single fang was shown. a silent message to not come too close. his circling, in a strange way, seemed as if he were predatory -- caiaphas' tail twitched against her thin hocks and her ears pulled back as he came back around her.

"game." she answered quietly, her raptor-yellow gaze unflinching. it occurred to her he might be circling to find some hidden weakness, and she sharpened her resolve. she would not be caught unaware. "i'm caiaphas - alpha of grimnismal." it had been a long time since she had introduced herself as anything; yet she was pleased to hear that her title had the old familiar ring of sovereign importance still.