Coming back around again

She stood just slightly behind Mercury's shoulder as he squared off with the hungry bear, making it clear that he wasn't willing to give up their prey to the scavenging predator. Stand and fight it was! She was willing to follow his lead either way. With the bear's attention on Mercury as he growled and gave the bear a warning, Anthea began to shift away from her lover's side and slowly crept out of the bear's line of sight, perhaps letting it believe that she was trying to get away. Instead, she snuck around just outside of the bear's peripheral vision till she was able to sneak around behind it. As soon as the bear lifted a heavy paw to swipe at Mercury, making it clear that it wasn't going to back down to the larger wolf's threats, she struck with a surprise attack. With her dagger still clasped firmly between her teeth, she lunged forward and drove the short blade into its back leg near its knee. She felt the metal scrape against bone as she sunk the sharp weapon through thick hide and muscle right as the bear roared in pain and immediately began to turn to try and retaliate toward her. The wound in its leg made its movement choppy and staggered though and it gave her a moment to free her blade from its leg and bounce back out of the way before its slobbery jaws could reach her.

"Speech"