Throw Down

The skeleton-marked woman turned to face her with a level of enthusiasm she hadn't been expecting and gave a very interesting... greeting? Could it even be called a greeting? She seemed to speak about herself in the third person, calling herself Medusa. The name was unique enough to trigger a memory, bringing back the news she had been told a while back of the woman who had taken a pack associated with Ashen, renaming it Insomnia. Her ears perked a bit with recognition even though it was events and news that had happened prior to her being Matriarch so she had learned about it second hand from her mother. Regardless, the warnings to treat Insomnia's wolves with caution had still stuck in her memory and that caught her off guard enough that she almost wasn't able to react in time to Medusa suddenly charging forward toward her, clearly not wanting to waste any time in kicking off this fight.

Avacyn would have to process the fact that she had accidentally stumbled upon another alpha in a minute and instead was forced to quickly jump into her defenses just in time for her opponent's shoulder to slam into her chest. The blow was slightly damped by her armor, but she could already feel the low, aching feeling of a bruise forming. Luckily by then she had gotten her bearings so she was able to duck down and avoid the snapping jaws of her opponent, feeling her teeth catch slightly on the fur of her scruff as she pulled away. She quickly lunged forward with an attack of her own, snapping at Medusa's left side near her ribs with her capped fangs while lifting her own left paw with claws extended to try and scratch down the front of Medusa's right foreleg.

"Avacyn Mendacium"