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Atreus was locked in a grim wrestle with the cougar when it was suddenly spinning away from him. The youth took the opportunity to leap back and reset, cold eyes tracking everything now that he was in a position to see. It was his mother that had distracted the cougar, and even now was facing it down. The cougar's eyes flicked between the two, clearly trying to decide if it was worth continuing the fight. But, though he was wary, he wasn't frightened enough to immediately run off when faced by a pup and a very small adult. They'd need to change that.

Leaping forward again, Atreus slashed his claws at the cougar's cheek, drawing blood as he took it by surprise. Wolves, in the cougar's limited experience, didn't have sharp claws, so he had been slow to dodge. This was an alarming development for the young cat...