Sweet Talk

Her charcoal dark tail wiggled behind her at her mother's praise! She liked that! She wanted to get more praise! She wanted to get the most praise of all her siblings!

"Yes! Beat the fucker up! Beat the fucker up!" She exclaimed loudly bouncing back and forth alongside Absinth. Yes! Kill it! She'll be the first of her siblings to kill a bear! Right? She didn't hear anything else about her siblings killing bears! She wanted to be first!

Her mother dropped her voice to a whisper and it made Xina pay more attention, she drew closer to listen to her mother's voice. Follow Mama's lead, stay close. Prove her cunning AND strength! Xina narrowed her golden eyes and snarled at the word die. The only one dying was that bear today!

She bounded after her mother, two steps for every one of hers. Her nose was active and her body ready.

She heard the bear, and smelled the bear before she saw it. Massive, white, towering over even her mother as it stood stretching its back against the tree. A wild feral grin creased the girl's maw as she slunk against a tree. Her eyes glittered with intensity. She had to kill it. She had to get it. Must! Must! Her blood thrummed in her ears as she stalked closer to it, not waiting for her mother's lead.