Redtail Rise you're such a strange girl

This was practice but it was also pure play.  There would be little strategy involved - the fun was in the grappling, in bonding with him through shared exchange of the upper hand.

He went for her flank and she allowed herself to fall sideways, grasping for his muzzle with hers lightly.  She wouldn’t stay down long enough to let him take too much advantage of her lowered position, but her eyes too sparkled with fun.  Any leftover exclusion from before was dismissed entirely now, overencompassed with the comradie of friendship and pack.

ok to continue or fade!