As a scraggly yearling, Vesper had been too quick to bare her teeth; this endangered her just as often as it saved her life. She was still a paranoid creature inclined to believe that strangers were dangerous, but there was a wealth of experience to back it up and to make it easier to avoid or escape such situations.
And so her first impulse, when the reddish cub snarled at her, was to burst into laughter. She suppressed this, however, remaining silent as her lips pressed into a tight line; this line quirked at the corner of her lips into a smirk that slowly deepened. She made no true move, though an experienced and observant individual might notice that she’d shifted her weight just slightly.
Ves had no quarrel with young loners, especially not a non-luperci born into this luperci-dominated world just like she had been. However, she didn’t want to promote stupidity, and so she finally tossed her head and flashed a full grin at the girl.
“Do you really want to make noise at me, sweetheart?” the coywolf asked smoothly. “Can you back up your challenge?”
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