Dragoncrest Cliffs "With it or on it."

Satisfaction rushed her when she did make contact, and in keeping true to these last several moments, everything happened far too fast to truly appreciate. With a jerk, she tried to bite--in earnest! Fierce, like the more experienced wolves, but she was unfamiliar enough here to not know what was really enough, and definitely not well-versed in the sensation of retaliation when it inevitably came to her with a wicked snarl.

Lessons in defense were a dim hum here; when she couldn't quite maneuver an angle to protect her face, neck, and all else all at once. In trying to twist her face away, she felt teeth slice up the side of her cheek anyway. Avoiding worse, and before she could rip her past her ears, she backpedaled enough to regain her bearings with a snarl all of her own before the pain set it.

Before she could return for more, too, Blixen swept in to grab the stranger by the neck and the shrieking pinned back her ears immediately--but it did not look good for the stranger to her after that, despite what injuries their own side totaled overall.

Opalia was still charged for her next pounce back, all ready, but Mallaidh joined the situation when the screaming turned towards more thrashing. She stood bristling and ready, although did not yet charge into the scene again immediately; her face was burning, everything was so much. The brute had fallen, evidently, and blood was everywhere with the shrieks of this other one seared into her mind. She didn't want to get in the way. They knew what they were doing.

In this relative pause, Ephraim got a wide-eyed look of some kind of confirmation when he took to his leave, and so did their snow-furred sentinel.. but until the remaining problem stopped making a ruckus, this wasn't over; she tried focusing on Blixen, Mallaidh, and their intruder, unsure of how to fit in besides be present in case it got worse.. and not sure what to do with the fact anymore, now that there's a dead enemy wolf right there, a girl still putting up a fight, and a scope even bigger and messier than this waiting for them all at the lakeside with Heda.