The coywolf lowered her lean body, and Skoll listened to her in rapt attention as she began to describe the bobcats. He snorted at the first statement, already knowing that; his tongue involuntarily swept over his scarred black nose again. She described the felines’ attitude and spoke of underestimation—but despite following all of her words, he was clueless when she tilted her head and remained low, nonthreatening, her posture pleasing the dominant puppy blood that coursed powerfully through his veins. Like she said, he relaxed.
She moved fluidly, with all the ’yotish agility and trickery in her blood, and while the puppy did jerk away with a yelp of surprise, she still managed to ease her jaws around his throat. He stood very still, his chest heaving, his green eyes turning in an effort to see her as he tried to keep from bumping against her teeth. A memory triggered, of her bowling him over when he was smaller and trying to flaunt his childish dominance—that and this made him want to growl, but he had also learned her lesson.
Skoll narrowed his green eyes as she pulled away, his expression serious over simmering rebelliousness. “So get ’em off guard and hit ’em stomachs?” he asked, taking a moment to listen to her answer before he moved.
He was clumsier in his strike, but as he surged forward, he was giving her enough time to respond—either to rear back like a bobcat and continue the lesson, or to dodge and counter. His mouth opened up to try to nip whatever tender flesh he could, though, and he put what power he could in his moving body rather than his jaws so she wouldn’t get hurt…assuming, of course, that he would even be able to touch the fleet-footed Terra.
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