One more for the road

Distracting the polar bear was easy. Bears were stupid and singleminded in the winter, looking at everything like it might be a prospective meal. The white-furred ursine in front of him was no exception. The bear huffed, chuffed, and bellowed as it tried to scare the yearling wolf away. Saracyn just growled back and grinned his cocky grin. The bear had no idea what was coming—but Saracyn did. He saw the violet form of his twin sister creeping up behind their foe, a beautifully stark contrast against the bland white of the snow, but the bear never saw it. Ava attacked its hind legs immediately, slashing and tearing at one to render it immobile. Sara watched with macabre glee while his sister eviscerated the bear's tendons and muscles with vicious precision. Sometimes he was truly so envious of the gifts she'd been given when he got to watch her put them to use. But it just meant he had to compensate in other areas for his lack of mutations.

One of those areas of compensation was aggression. As soon as the polar bear toppled and tumbled under its own weight on its dead leg, Saracyn meandered around the bear with a swagger in his step. The bear was focused on Avacyn, trying to turn futilely to reach her. It gave Saracyn the opening he needed to sidle calmly up beside the bear and extend his serrated blade from his bracer, slicing through the wrist of the bear's forepaw opposite its crippled leg. The bear roared in pain and tried to swipe at Saracyn, but found its paw rendered limp and useless. "Aww, what a shame. Look at this, Ava, the poor thing can't stand or swipe anymore." He mocked the polar bear openly, no longer fearing this massive carnivore that they had effectively crippled. He drove his blade into the soft flesh between the bear's shoulder and chest, just for good measure to ensure it wouldn't be able to use that foreleg against them. The bear roared and whined in agony, sounding like it was pleading for mercy. "Hmm, what should we do with the poor creature, dear sister?" he asked, giving his twin a darkly playful grin as they tormented and mutilated the bear.

"Saracyn Mendacium"