[ The light makes her pause, half-captivated by how dazzling it is. But something inside of her shifts uneasily, senses danger. Her hackles rise; the boy is more wrong, more unnatural than she could initially sense. She doesn't like this, doesn't like what this light, this heat might bring.
A low snarl slowly lurches up in the back of her throat and she stands her ground, claws digging into the earth beneath her. The growl's cut short as the boy shifts into something else, another kind of beast. Something fizzles inside of her, a kind of memory — tiny fragments of it dipping in her mind's eye like the skipping of a pebble across water. She's seen a beast like this before, in the midst of battle, of war.
There's little time to dwell on the thought.
As he leaps, so does she — throwing herself at full force with a roar. She collides with him, and the balance tips, sending her backwards under his weight.
But easy to pin down, she is not. What she lacks in physical strength and size, she makes up for in speed. She wrestles, refusing to keep still — front claws reaching to swipe and maul wherever she can land a blow, back claws kicking up to dig furiously at his underbelly. ]
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A low snarl slowly lurches up in the back of her throat and she stands her ground, claws digging into the earth beneath her. The growl's cut short as the boy shifts into something else, another kind of beast. Something fizzles inside of her, a kind of memory — tiny fragments of it dipping in her mind's eye like the skipping of a pebble across water. She's seen a beast like this before, in the midst of battle, of war.
There's little time to dwell on the thought.
As he leaps, so does she — throwing herself at full force with a roar. She collides with him, and the balance tips, sending her backwards under his weight.
But easy to pin down, she is not. What she lacks in physical strength and size, she makes up for in speed. She wrestles, refusing to keep still — front claws reaching to swipe and maul wherever she can land a blow, back claws kicking up to dig furiously at his underbelly. ]