Horizon Ridge Niptaruk

Kigipigak managed to get a few decent bites in, but nothing that held firm. The boar was prepared to tear its hide out of the wolf's mouth whenever it felt the pinch of those teeth, leading to a series of gashes along one side of the creature and a silver sheen where the moonlight caught upon the blood. It began to pivot and face Kigipigak with the same gusto as before, frenetic in its stamping and tilting its head to shovel at the air, or reaching to snap with its own blunt - but still dangerous - teeth.

Later, Kigipigak would wonder if the beast had been possessed. Having hunted boar before (although infrequently) he had never come across such a desperate, yet worthy, adversary.

Then there was Lane; having returned to lend her aid, Kigipigak was just as surprised as the boar when she emerged from the dark, and missed a step in his arcing assault. Thankfully the boar's attention had drifted too, sensing movement, and Kigipigak was given a small opening to dive in and grip at the creature's neck, as it was screaming in pain from Lane's bite.

Still, the boar would not be felled. It pulled against the grip of teeth, moving in to Lane's space and then pulled away from her, trying to smack at Kigipigak with its face or a kick of a leg. Each moment of effort spent to fight was weaker than the last, until it was sucking down wet, grunting breaths.