These dam beavers

Aliana... was pregnant. She had told him so only recently. Filled with such self-loathing, he could barely look at the woman and so, he found himself on the mainland, scouring the second territory that he had claimed. Anything to avoid the woman for a while. He'd given her the option of ending the pregnancy, but she'd chosen to keep it. Every time that he looked at those children or at the shredded collar around her neck, he would remember what he had done.

Darkness came early as it had begun to do as of late and so the world was all but black when he made his way back to the bridge. A flickering from the corner of the brutes seeing eye caught his attention and his neck curled, looking in that direction. Across the distance, he first noticed the luminescent line of beavers. It was odd for beavers to be out this late but was odder still that they were glowing. It made Chimera uneasy, just like it had when the crabs and seals had been glowing. What in the hell was happening around here?

After his gaze scanned the line of beavers, he noticed Dalila standing on the other side. Before, he may have very well left the woman to her own devices, but she had come to him of her own free will. Whatever animosity that he had felt for her prior was gone. The brute watched as she moved, his gaze narrowing as the beavers moved as well, blocking off her path. No. No that wouldn't do.

The brute adjusted his course, coming up behind the first glowing beaver. With the strange creature so distracted, it didn't even react when Chimera stepped on its wide tail and bit into the back of its neck. Within seconds, it was dead and the glow was gone. The other beavers didn't move despite the death of their brethren. Like a fire blazing up, a wash of blue fireflies filled the area, illuminating the space as though the held the light of day within them. Chimera motioned with one paw for Dalila to come to him. They needed to get out of here.

"Chimera Klien"