Couldn't Stay Away [Joining]

A smile was her response to Amos’ words, and she knew he meant it, despite the playful tone. A thrill went through her as he accepted her father’s offer, and she settled more comfortably to listen to her father’s test.

A good question. Her own answers had, at first, been ‘Go for the throat.’ But her father had put her through more training, and she’d seen that it really depended on who she was fighting. A larger wolf than herself, for instance, would be vulnerable along the belly, open for a smaller, and swifter wolf’s jaws to rip into the soft skin and disembowel them. As well, there were several major arteries that when severed, could kill merely from blood loss if no healer got to it in time.

A smaller wolf’s spine was a good target. One her father was fond of aiming for. Catching a wolf just behind the head on the neck and giving a hard-enough shake could damage the spinal column, and done right, separate the skull from the spine.

All grim, calculating measures to ensure a threat was nipped in the bud. What would Amos’ answers be?

Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Hear" ---- Think