Who's Laughing Now?

So she'd poked the hyena with her knife and it was looking straight at her. Now what? The girl kind of grimaced and took a few steps back, unsure of her next line of attack. Thankfully, she didn't have to think of one. While she kept the hyena distracted, the big cat rushed it, wrapping her legs around it with her teeth in its face. Oh yeah, now Scylla knew what to do. Running forward, the girl used her knife yet again, slicing into the hyena's throat which sent a shower of blood spattering over slate fur, but she didn't care.

The girl hopped back and watched as the hyena's strength waned and it soon was dead alongside its comrades. Sitting beside one tidepool, the girl's long, silken tail swishes over the sand and rocks. "Good job, Birna. That was a lot of fun." Mismatched eyes crinkled as she grinned.

"Scylla Klein"