If You Have To Explain A Joke, There Is No Joke

Minute by minute the hyena's claws drew closer and closer. It was soon joined again by its fellow and between the two of them they were making short work of the den's structure. Dirt was falling on her and she searched desperately for some sort of back door but she couldn't see anything. She tried to be brave like her parents would be. What would her mother say to see her cowering like this. She swallowed and then lunged forward with both her front claws unleashed, she dragged them across the nose of one of the hyena's while her jaws ripped through the lower lip of the other. They both backed up, yowling and yipping from the pain. It only seemed to make them angrier and they dug violently at the den until they could reach her. She shrieked as they lunged but soon both were pulled away from her. Valdís mauled one and Halla another. Fear turned to elation as she let out a cheer.