Redtail Rise XXVI

wolverine skidded back. augur watched her with an observant yellow eye as the girl recovered and swung for him again.

the girl's speed was more than his own. she nipped nimbly for his plume with an alacrity of which augur deeply approved.

but he was not hunt-leader for nothing; her shoulder was left unguarded and augur whirled with a graceful swiftness that belied his bulk, massive teeth clacking on open air as he struck toward wolverine, crowding her with a hard connection of his wide chest as well.