they come at night- STRANGER DANGER!!

Yarou, unlike many of the others, was not asleep when the commotion began. She'd been returning from a hunt, picking her way through the bamboo with the uncertain slowness of a two-day packmember. The smell of the territory was not even fully upon her; she smelled somewhat of Tojo-Kai, but did not wear it ingrained upon her pelt quite yet. The dolphin she'd snagged with her mother, hunting at sea, was limp in her jaws, at least.

She heard the commotion and began to move faster, abandoning her kill in the bamboo as she heard her mother's cry. Hakki, for her part, was snapping at the legs of a large brute who had her half-pinned and was trying to throttle the life out of her. Yarou flung herself upon the brute, digging her teeth into his shoulder, his neck, his back, with a series of rapid bites.

But that was not the goal. He screamed a curse and released Hakki, and both mother and daughter fled back towards the main camp. Hakki, a bit faster, managed to gain. Hakki joined the attack on Askell's attacker, the small akita flinging herself bodily upon the invader. Yarou carried past, colliding with a bitch who had been trying to attack Usagi from behind; the wolfdog found herself grappling with the pure-wolf, who snarled something about koi bastard and lunged for her throat, only to miss. They parted, both bleeding, now, and Yarou spat on the ground between them before they joined once more in combat, Yarou well aware of the disadvantage her size provided.