Ouroboros Spine x-ing a paragrab

the tupilak's knives cut at kukutux.

she cried out, a sound as much from anger as from pain; she reeled from their quarrel, blood rushing to the end of her chin from punctures below her eye; and suddenly her senses were filled with keyni, her village-sister striking toward the hinds of the the fox-demon. and then adrastus, at once. 

he loomed large and terrible; he held thunder in his chest, and bore down upon the tupilak. 

moonwoman would bear scars from this; they throbbed lowly across her muzzle, and she was maddened by the pain. kukutux circled, meaning to grab for the scarlet head, nape, shoulder; anywhere that might disarm the fox and bring her down beneath them.

willing to kill unless their might was heeded. even now, the seed of mercy still existed in the duck.