I don't need saving!

She cringed in the snow, memories of the past overwhelming her for a moment. The darkness of the snow around her face encouraged them. She sucked in a deep breath, breathing in snow and chocking as she tore herself free - both of the snow, and the past. She had expected to have been attacked by now, but something had caught its attention. She hadn’t heard the first words, head buried in the snow, but she caught the next.

Someone was calling attention to the dire wolf attacking her, buying her time. Heart thudding in her chest she scrambled further along the snow, finding her balance and turning the ungainly fleeing into something a little more controlled. She turned once she had put a few lengths of distance between herself and her attacker. It was facing the wolf that had called out, stalking towards him, teeth bared, and stance clearly hostile.

Oh, hell.

She couldn’t leave him. He had risked himself for her.

She glanced behind her once, fantasising perhaps about losing her conscience and fleeing. When she focused again on the two wolves, she had pushed aside her fear, and charged. Leaping at the hind legs of the dire wolf, and pulling with all her might. The larger creature kicked out, knocking against the scales that protected her forehead.

"Speech"