Easy pickings

Sverre hardly considered himself the heroic type. Sure, he'd save the life of the kid if he needed it, but he'd much rather give the kid a second to get his shit together so they could fight it off together. It wasn't like he was a young pup, but neither of them could take this bear out alone and with it being as close as it was to the borders, they needed to take care of it now rather than later.

He didn't get an answer from the barely familiar kid but that was fine. He stalled the bear from lunging at the boy before he'd have been ready, but kids would be kids. As they circled around him and the bear, he swung his axe again to keep the bears focus on him and not the much smaller wolf circling around back. Once the kid was behind the bear and seemed to be waiting on an attack, Sverre charged the bear and swung his axe for a third time but this time at the front paws of the massive predator.

The bear roared as it rose onto his hind legs, swiping down at Sverre as he ducked and rose his axe up to block it's heavy paw and giving the kid the perfect opportunity to lunge for the delicate tendons at the back of the bears muscular hind legs.

"Speech!"

Art by Siarczek at dA & Code by Skelle 2023