Best Feast decoration ever! (event)

Corbin’s confidence was all the stronger with the faith his sister gave him, her assumption he truly could make his plan work.  Spitting out the two feathers he’d got in his mouth from the bird, that thought helped him keep his eyes trained on it fearlessly, despite having already taken one jab of the bird's beak.  Despite also the fact of how fast the bird was!

Corbin was getting ready for another joust with the bird when suddenly its attention swerved to his sister.  There she was, on the branch with their prize and then the bird was flying to her.  “No!” Corbin called out as his sister started to fall and the bird was going towards her.  The boy shoved straight past the crow, ignoring it as he looked at his sister’s plight.

“Slide towards me!” Corbin hollered to his sister, if she got closer then the rock would be under her and only a few inches to fall instead of down to the farther ground below. “You can do it and I’m right here.  I’ll grab ya when you get closer.  Just slide a paw, then the next one at a,” Corbin stopped when the bird tried to fly past him to get at Haydee.

Without thought, simply a need to protect, Corbin's neck snaked out, biting into the bird’s wing.  Had he truly thought about aiming or timing he would likely have missed but this was just some instinctive urge to bite and protect.  Needle puppy teeth were still enough to do damage to a bird's fragile wing, not that Corbin had strategized it.  Even as he held onto the crow’s beach hit his head and bit his ear.  It hurt! It was real pain which Corbin wasn’t used to.  Snarling in anger he shook his head before letting go.  The bird got away but it was fluttering now instead of flying.  It glared at the two, an angry kaw but no longer attempting to attack.

Corbin wanted to cry, it hurt but his sister was in trouble.  He wanted to cry even more for that as this was all terribly scary.  He couldn’t cry right now, his sister needed him.  “It’s ok Haydee,” he offered confidently instead.  “I know you’re good with your paws, this is easy for you if you think about it.”  Honestly, he wanted to be terrified for her but he wasn’t about to admit to that.  He thought of calling for mom or dad and it was a really good idea but, he didn’t want Haydee to know they were needed.  He wanted his sister calm and confident in him.  Once she was safe from the tree they could get mom and dad.

"Corbin"