She stood still, muscles tautly coiled and prepared to loosen should she need to make a quick retreat. Her entire body was poised for flight — if she did not learn the source of the hissing voice, Rio would flee. However, as she had expected, the voice returned with words whose origins she did not understand. It made no sense for him to be referring to her. She wasn't harming anything by standing where she was, having not even crossed into the pack with such a hauntingly strange "fence." The male voice was drenched with poison, is if she was worse than the dirt beneath her feet. Perhaps there was a ghost.
Terrified tears welled in her sparkling eyes. Unsure of what would happen to her, she feared for her life. Searching the grass, movement caught the drift of her gaze, a figure rising from the bowels of the Earth. At first, she noticed only the canine's eyes, bright as freshly spilled blood. The sable wolfess felt she would break apart in their glare — she had never yet witnessed anything as powerful as those eyes. What do you mean? she questioned the slender creature quietly. The teenager had no idea what he was talking about when he spoke of her fate and of her fellow wolf. I'm afraid of you, she admitted, needing him to know that he was having his desired effect. Rio saw no difference between coyotes and wolves. She understood now that the nameless coyote hated her species, but it seemed so wrong. Prejudice was not in her heart, in fact, the frightening beast was teaching her its meaning.
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