Oh silly, stupid Nathaniel. Word Count: 350
Nathaniel was growing impatient with the fact that the girl didn’t seem to hear his words at all. Why wasn’t she listening to him? The red-furred pup was used to being heard and acknowledged in some way, even if that meant his ideas getting rejected by his father or one of his aunts. This other pup didn’t even chastise him for what he said; she just continued to try to push him off the cliff. Having no idea who this girl was or why she was really doing this, he was beginning to come to a conclusion that she was some sort of intruder of Inferni. Yes, that had to be it. If she were from Inferni, she would certainly know about his father Hybrid, the greatest soldier in the clan, and at the mere mention of him she would back off and leave Nat alone.
Of course, it would be difficult to alert anyone that there was an intruder if that intruder were attacking him, like Symera was now. Nat would need to find a way to escape…the stream! Of course! He would not be shamed by being pushed off the cliff by a she-pup smaller and weaker than him, but if he knocked her down and jumped into the water himself, it would make for a very spectacular escape. In the young puppy’s mind, it made sense.
Gathering up his strength, he roughly shoved back at the girl, intending on pushing her to the ground. Then he ran, rather clumsily, away from her to the end of the ledge, where he leapt down into the stream. As he splashed down into the creek, he howled, “Intruder! Intruder by da creek!” He was hesitant to run towards the caves where he could directly alert the adults there, worried that the girl would escape by then. Instead, his little voice echoed around the trees, not loud enough for those all the way at the mansion to hear but certainly in earshot of anyone in the forest, if there were any other coyotes there. Whether anyone would take the alarms of the boy seriously was a different matter.
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