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OoC: Sorry for the wait! Did you want to wrap this up now? C:
The air left her lungs all at once as he was suddenly on her, crashing her back to the wet snow beneath them. The whites around her wide blue eyes were visible as she gaped up at the werewolf atop her, her fingers feebly grasping at the ground as though trying to push herself back up. Thoroughly cowed as Haku's snarling face loomed above her, Coli panted shallowly, her heart slamming wildly in her slim chest. She almost didn't hear the words he was telling her, she was so far from her wits. But she caught the gist of it.
She had earned this reprimand, and then some. Any high-ranking wolf would have kicked around a newcomer for threatening his children, and any father would have slapped a daughter that was this disrespectful. And she knew it, too, which was why her cowardly jaws had snapped shut instantly, too frightened to speak further. And yet, this new, older Haku had still not hurt her, not really - just knocked her down twice, which was child's play compared to the assault she had suffered at his claws twelve moons ago. "You... mean it..." she breathed, stating it rather than asking. Haku Soul was defending his sons. Haku cared about something. Had he been lying, then, when he threatened them himself? Was he trying to hide the fact that he had attachments now?
Her mind awhirl, Coli sagged beneath his pressing weight, nodding a numb acknowledgment to his ultimatum. Yes, they had an agreement. Yes, she would not undermine him. It burned, though; being told to "grow up", when it was his fault that she couldn't. Sullen, just like a pup, she jutted her lip and looked away from her father's face. It was probably the first real discipline she had ever gotten from him, since he himself acted so often like a child. His scent, his touch, it all still chilled her to the core, but now she felt resentment as well, a flicker of self-righteous anger. It was something new; it was the first step to change.
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