Kintla Flatlands Starlink

It worked! Every.Single.Time.

Dwin felt emboldened by her first small victory against a stranger. Turned out that you could play being the confident one, even if you did not feel like it 100%. Of course, she would very much have preferred that her opponent had not backed off that easily and they would have had some heated debate. Maybe some swearwords (mom and dad weren't around to hear them) involved. Instead the creature's will seemed to crumble before that pretend-wall made of cardboard and it looked even more miserable. It submitted, it pleaded.

Now Dwin faced a challenge of her own. She was in a position of power, which for a wolf her age did not happen very often, save for some situations. No child is inherently good or bad. Rather they have a set of qualities that you have to put in a good context. Dwin was headstrong, independent, self-sufficient, creative, fearless and loved to take initiative. Her siblings, who had not bent to her will easily, and adults, who had directed her energy away from destructive things, had helped Ceridwen not to become domineering, selfish and unnecessarily mean. They had taught her to take others in account. A little bit at least. 

Here - free to do as she pleased, it was so, so tempting to kick the fallen more. Just to cheer herself up, because - frankly speaking - the last few days had not been easy on her either. The struggle was real, but something in the manner of this odd deer-dog reminded her of dad. While she did not want to delve in, what was it exactly, if there was one thing she would never, ever do - disappoint him. That rule - as she realized - applied also, when he was not around to see, what Dwin was doing. 

"Okay, Skeletor. You stay, where you are - I will toss this at ground zero. And no funny business," she picked up a piece of skin (there was not much to choose from anyway - all options were equally dissatisfying) and threw towards the cowering dog. "And no funny business - or I will rip your head off!" she added just for a good measure.