OOC here!
Oran didn't know the word "coyote." If he ever had, the word might have come back to him then, as so many things seemed to, along with a list of things to watch out for; light on their feet. Fast. Dangerous. Instead, the only thoughts he had were smaller. Weaker.
It was about time he learned that was not true.
He rumbled a bit as the smaller canine lunged at him, but he'd barely shifted to intercept the charge when the other male changed directions, sharp teeth scratching his shoulder--shallow, nothing like any attack he would have gone for. It confused and disoriented him, and he stared at the wound for a long moment before he swung around, finally realizing the male was behind him.
What is he doing? Playing with me? Oran stared at the male, hunching close to the ground and making no move to attack himself as he attempted to figure out what, exactly, his role in this was.
Then the sting of the scratch registered in his mind and he straightened, snarling at the other male with his ears laid back, and lunged himself, waiting until the last moment to lower his head so as to slam it into the smaller canine's rib cage and hopefully send him rolling.
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