Learn to pay attention

Bast, hiding in the grass, tensed when she saw the coyote going for her young son. The young snow leopard had some training with fighting, all of her kids did. It was their legacy, to defend the line of Fatalis.

Sirius had, by now, scared off or killed the other coyotes. Perhaps the one fighting Kotori thought itself lucky, avoiding the Warlords wrath. Or perhaps it was too blind, intent on its prey.

Sirius settled on his hunches, playing referee over the fight. The coyote didn’t know it yet, but everything was stacked against it, and either way, it would not make it off this pack land alive. “That’s it Tor! Cripple him, it’s the only way to keep it from playing its chicken tactics”