i dare not go, for if i do, my mother will say...

If all of this proved anything it was that he had no clue what to do in a real fight. No, perhaps that wasn't entirely true. There had been other large predators and encounters when he did just fine, but he had never encountered another wolf that had genuinely wanted to hurt him and to have them in their home with no warning like this... It had throughly thrown him off balance in more ways than one. The pastel girl pulled her leg away before he could get a grip on her, his jaws snapping together on nothing. Even though he tried to get up the same mud that had helped him get out of the way so quickly turned into his downfall as his paws failed to get any kind of purchase for him to push himself up.

Left on the ground, there was no way for him to avoid her as she spun around and pinned him down to the ground, knocking the air out of him a bit as his chest was pressed harder into the mud. Wide eyed, he tried to turn his head to see her and with one wide, emerald eye he saw her crazed grin as she leaned down over him till they were nearly nose to nose. It was hard to breathe but he couldn't tell if that was purely because of her weight on his back or the fear that was gripping his chest as she threatened him and snapped her teeth in his face. He thought was was it, he was done, but then he saw a bit of movement over top of the girl's head and Copper appeared to his rescue, the stoat scrambling with a speed only something as small as him could do to try and snap his little teeth and claws at the girl's face and nose in retaliation.

"Dorian"