were all just scars in the making
Word Count → 244 :: Didn't want to mention Saule so you can decide how she comes in/what weapons/horse or not/et cetera.
Blood striped the coyote’s lean body, and her pale blue eyes were aflame. Her muzzle contorted in a feral snarl as she turned, seeking another opponent, but after the dark-cowled wolf had fled, others had not been quick to attack. She grimaced and left her sister’s side reluctantly, trusting that she would heed orders and common sense and remove herself from the thick of the fray.
Already more were coming, Salsolians and Infernians alike, but Vesper let them swarm past her as if she were a stone in a river. The smell of horse sweat and aggression and fear and blood clotted in her nostrils, and she could plainly see that most of her comrades, chosen or not, were locked in battle with the wolves. Trapped in her optime form for the duration of the battle, she was not sure if she trusted herself to engage the enemy alone. She was no clumsy pup in this shape anymore, but she also wasn’t at the top of her game.
But she had to do something. Her bow was useless; even if she could find it and a supply of arrows, it would be more of a liability than an asset. Adrenaline coursing through her, she rushed through the smoky camp, until she burst unexpectedly into a smaller clearing adjacent to the main one.
Vesper paused, her body hunched and her bloodied claws unsheathed. Her ear twitched, and then hell burst into the clearing with her.
Vesper Optime by Nat; table code from the Mentors!
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