The devil you know

Oleander looked up at the pale moon hanging above him. It would be the perfect time to catch the ripest fattest seal to gather its stores of lard for his salves. They'll be sleeping on the shores hopefully if they weren't sleeping under the ice. He had to be cautious though, Polar Bears frequent the area in droves, regardless of how many he'd taken down now, two? Two. He'd rather not take one on by himself, the youth wasn't stupid, was reckless stupid? Bas would probably think so.

His thoughts would nag at him until the smell of bear and blood reached his senses. The blood was canine... Then a blood curdling scream split the air. His paws churned the snow toward it, like a flurry of snow himself he arrived at the massacre. A bear ripping into a girls back. With a snarl, he launched himself at the bear's face, his talons unsheathed and gleaming as he made for the eye of the bear and attempted to rend its ear from its head. The bear easily swung at him and threw him against a snow bank, but Ollie was undeterred. Shaking it off, huffing and a little winded he gathered himself up and made another attempt at smacking the bear back. He was relentless, snarling and biting the air in front of it. He leaped to stand over the girl as it bear moved toward her, his fur bristling and teeth snarling.

The bear finally decided that this wasn't as easy a meal as it thought and turned to run while Ollie jumped forward at it a few times to scare it off.

Panting he turned toward the strange woman in the snow. Her back is a mess not just from a bear mauling... Where those... The slashes had an interesting mark, almost like deep slices from a cat but the trajectory was wrong.

"I got ya, you're gonna be all right." He said quietly to her. He looked around to see if the bear was sticking around in the background. He couldn't leave her alone out here like this to get his supplies. So he motioned for his raven to come closer, and gave Eterna some instructions. He waited patiently next to his new patient while the bird flew back to the Armada.

"Speech!"