Laugh It Up

The Empress patrolled as often as she could, with the extended winter their already strained relationship with other predators had Venom on high alert. Poison leapt from branch to branch above in the trees as she padded across the well worn paths. Her senses were on high alert, but it was her squirrel who gave the first alarm. Anko, the white and silver akita, jumped to attention beside her master as Venom rounded the bend round the rive to see the pack of hyenas after the young girl. She didn’t see the other adult wolf, but there wasn’t much time before she needed to act. She raced towards the pale she wolf, Empress and dog both hoping to bolster their numbers. Anything to make the hyenas stand down. She lifted her quills and bore her teeth as Anko barked unforgivingly beside her. The dog’s fur stood on its end. Venom had a feeling a show of force would not be enough.