Lupus in Fabula

Tamsyn could see how uncertain he was about her insisting that she would stick with him to see the hunt through, but in the end he relented after making her promise that she would be careful and that she would run home if this whole thing went south. He didn't have to add the unspoken piece of that for her to understand what he meant. With or without him. Her stomach twisted into knots at the thought of having to leave him here, but she understood that she couldn't take on this monstrous wolf without him so if it came to it she would have to save herself and their pups. She nodded resolutely with a flick of her ears, clinging to her bravery as he leaned down to give her a firm kiss that she returned whole heartedly. She kept repeating to herself that everything was going to work out and they were going to walk out of here victorious, but there was still a grim worry that lingered in the back of her mind.

She followed closely behind Kane while he tracked down their target, keeping her eyes up and watching the bamboo around them closely while her ears remained perked and listening. She felt like she hardly breathed to keep herself quiet and to listen for any trace of sound in this eerie maze. The rain made it difficult to hear so she had to focus even more intensely. Kane bent to focus on the vibrations of the ground and she held perfectly still, being his eyes to keep an eye on the world around them while he found his trail. Eventually he managed and she followed him quietly to where they eventually found a corpse of a large wolf that had clearly been here and decaying for some time. It turned her already sensitive stomach and she had to turn her head away from the remains while Kane went closer to study them. It wasn't until he turned back toward her that she stepped closer. He certainly didn't need to tell her to stay close. Just being here was making her uneasy. A snap from the bamboo ahead of them made her head jerk toward the noise and she spotted the massive, deadly wolf with wide, mint eyes.

When the wolf charged at them with a roar she quickly jumped out of the way, skidding and spinning in time to see Kane knocked to the ground with a heavy thud. "Kane!" she gasped in a worried whisper, her ears folding back against her head while a snarl pulled at her lips. She was forced to remain as out of the way as she could be while the two males locked into battle, the massive dire wolf clearly over bearing and overpowering Kane nearly at every turn. Kane was getting some good slices of his sabers into the wolf's flesh, but it was like nothing was stopping this beast. Her heart leapt into her throat when the dire wolf went for Kane's neck again, feeling a very brief moment of relief when Kane managed to make his scruff the target instead. That only lead to Kane being shaken and tossed in a way that she didn't know was possible with a brute his size. She winced at the way he hit the wall of thickly growing bamboo and she had to reign herself in from jumping into the fight rashly.

She knew she had to do something with how Kane was struggling to get back up and the dire wolf was advancing on him again. Even if she could just buy him some time... With a quick glance around she spotted some bamboo that had gotten snapped off from its base when the overgrown wolf charged through it and she seized the opportunity, racing over to it and snatching up the makeshift weapon, holding it with the sharp edge where it had broken facing away from her. She bounded over to their opponent before he could notice what she was doing, staying out of his line of sight till the last second. She caught his gaze as one of his eyes shifted toward her right as she went to jab the long piece of bamboo toward his face, the point of it spearing into his eye socket. The beast roared in rage and pain again and the way he threw his head while she was still holding on to her weapon of choice ended up knocking her off of her feet before she could let go, but it was enough to get him to stagger back while he ripped the bamboo from his eye and tossed it aside. The whole left side of his face was now covered in blood and the eye was either gone or severely damaged, but she couldn't tell from a quick glance. While the massive dire was doing that, Tamsyn scrambled back to her feet and darted away, hurrying to Kane's side to help him up.

"Tamsyn Carpathius of the Valley"