The mangy bird mewled as it chased the inadvertent bait latched onto her tail, and Timid flattened her black-marked ears against her slender head in protest. She contemplated lashing out at the annoying little brute, but no doubt it would just peck her between the eyes and send her for a loop. She’d never had to fight a bird before; her experiences were limited to being shooed into the den when eagles started to circle in search of easy meat. An undersized pup would have been easy pickings. Luckily, the gull was interested only in the crustacean and not in devouring the hapless hybrid, so she wasn’t in danger of being eaten.
Yet.
The jackal-mix all but barreled into an impossibly large beast coming toward her, and she let out a yip of shock as she spun around again. She could hear a voice calling out and thought that it was speaking to her. Unaware that the seagull had been chased away, she dove behind a pile of rocks. Peeking over the edge so that only her large ears and yellowish eyes showed, she stared in shock at the giant wolf.
Timid was no stranger to luperci; she was one, and had shifted a few times before. However, the shock of seeing a stranger with such a large stature was terrifying. The others that she’d seen were smaller, maybe a foot taller than her own optime form at the most, but he was around three heads bigger than her. That, and he was muscular, and masculine, and all around a threat.
Cautiously, she stepped out from behind the rocks, but with stiff legs and bristling hackles. She curled her lips back to show small but sharp teeth, but it was apparent that the quiet snarl did not belong on her face. She relented after a moment of sizing him up and stuttered, “Y-you’re h-huge.” And with that obvious statement, she was ready to make a run for it, when she had a better look at him—his fur, rather than his muscle mass and height. “And covered—covered in maroon. How’d you do that?”
Then she remembered that she was terrified, and her curious gaze quickly became suspicious.
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