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

She moved fast for someone so big and despite his facing heart and the small yelp that left his chest when she swiped at the tree leaving deep gouges in the trunk, his tail gave a little excited wave, it would be pretty cool to have met under other circumstances and just talked or had a friendly spar. But now wasn't the time to be getting distracted or asking for playdates, they still had to find those chickens!

A bear on two legs was more familiar to him than a bear on four, and while there was no cliff to push her over, the ground was slippery and wet. He remembered his mum's lesson could be used against him here, it wasn't advisable to get under her where she could flop on him, so he darted to her left, biting at an ankle and hoping his momentum would be enough to pull her off balance. Nothing quite hard or mean enough to draw blood.