meow you'll pay!

When her father's direction came, she flicked an ear to show she had heard him but didn't acknowledge the order otherwise, knowing she was by far the more visible of the two. She moved, only flicking her eyes to the treetops occasionally to make sure she wasn't taken completely off guard when the heavy cat she could feel stalking her from overhead took the bait.

The scrabble of claws on bark was the first warning, the low grating snarl the second. Deluge spun as quickly as she could, dropping her head to drive her antlers into the neck and shoulder of the big cat, but she wasn't quick enough to avoid the painful dig of claws into her shoulder. Despite the way her teeth clamped together to offset the adrenalin and pain, she grinned, raising her own cat-like paws to strike at her attacker. Her antlers were keeping those sharp and dangerous teeth away from the back of her neck, and she wasn't quite sure she wanted to adjust the angle of her head to try and bite at her opponent as well if it might mean the end of her.

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