for gold and glory

Medusa’s words caused Aster to hesitate and feel a smidge of regret. Then she remembered how terrified she’d been when she’d woken up to the tree shaking and a predator species trying to climb up into her nest, and self-righteous anger overwhelmed her thoughts. “Stop crying! How would you like it if a giant cat broke into your den and tried to cut your tail off?”

When Medusa launched herself up in the air, Aster shrieked and beat her wings to fly higher. Medusa’s teeth caught on one of her left wing’s feathers, but it wasn’t a flight feather, and thankfully wasn’t a pin feather. “Stupid and slow, what else could I expect from a mammal?” Aster jeered.

Of course, the wolf continued jumping up and down. What a mammal thing to do—if something doesn’t work, keep loudly trying the stupidest option until others come over and wreck everyone’s day. Aster hovered just above Medusa’s range as she shrieked more insults.

“Did you drown in your momma’s belly, mammal? Is that why your brain is so slow?” Aster chittered out a laugh. “And your breath is disgusting! I bet you really do eat rotten coyotes. I’m not surprised, you’re so bad at hunting, all you can catch are corpses!”

In the middle of her last sentence while Medusa launched herself in the air, Aster suddenly dived and attempted to scratch Medusa’s nose with one of her feet. Then she beat her wings and climbed to a safe distance, away from those terrifying teeth. “That’s for scaring the shit out of me this morning!”

Medusa vs Aster for Dominance (how dare you try to steal my treasures and feathers!)
Round: 1/1
Age: over 1yr
Size: Small Species (11’’ bird)
Build: Light
Skills: Intermediate Navigator (pending approval in maintenance thread)

// EDIT -- edit done to change Round from 1/? to 1/1. Done with permission from Dragon! And at Dragon's suggestion tbh