Bear It In Mind

His arrival on the scene was unexpected, but in the aside of her mind, she figured that it was more understandable that she’d not known Eligos was on the Dancefloor than a grizzly ten feet away in the shore’s grass.

She saw the dark form take a flying leap onto the bear’s back and cling on, which sent the bear writhing in a mixture of alarm and fury, and not a little pain as its unexpected passenger sank his teeth into it’s hide. As the bear reared, pawing toward its back, Aurielle ducked in, jaws parting for a slash across the beast’s exposed underside.

Her teeth met flesh and sank before she ripped free, bounding to the side as the bear abruptly dropped back to all fours and dove for her with an agonized roar. Now that her initial shock at the bear’s surprise attack had faded, she fell into the smooth, economical movements of someone clearly practiced in fighting things way bigger than herself.

As the bear pursued her, she danced with the lithe steps of a bullfighting horse, twisting and twirling on her back paws and drawing the bear away from the river, hoping that if it remembered Eligos again, it wouldn’t be able to drown him if it tried falling on its back… Although there would still be the likelihood of him being squashed. She doubted a cold, calculating type like him hadn’t considered the possibility.

In fact, the bear was indeed starting to remember the wolf on its back, and as she spotted the shift as it started to twist after Eli, she ducked in and slashed again for its face, getting the neck instead and bounding out of reach once more as the bear spun back to give her its full attention again.

Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Labhair an Sean-Teanga." ---- "Hear" ---- Think