Burning Bridges

The contact of shoulder to chest left some slight, almost moderate bruising on Virgil?s own left shoulder, an unfortunate side effect of any shoulder attacks. Her shoulder hit the middle of Alena?s chest, despite aiming for it to hit the ivory woman?s left side chest and Alena not moving out of the way to alter its course, but the golden woman paid that little mind. Her paw also connected, delivering what damage it would, jaws sinking into the woman?s scruff. As soon as her teeth managed to kiss flesh her hips were pivoting to her own right, attempting to pull her to a ninety degree angle with the ivory woman.
As she moved, Alena?s jaws clipped her left shoulder, leaving one inch long and a quarter of an inch deep gashes upon her left shoulder. The wounds bled, but Virgil?s shoulder was still fully functional, although a bit sore. Because Virgil had pivoted out of her way, any attempt Alena might make at charging forwards and knocking her over would be unsuccessful. Virgil?s defenses remained set the entire time; legs spread equally, weight evenly distributed across her fully grounded limbs (as the forth had moved off of the ivory woman?s left paw with Virgil?s pivot), knees bent, weight lowered, tail lashing out behind her, hackles raised, shoulders rolled, head lowered to align with her spine, neck scrunched, chin tucked, jaws parted when they did not manage to grasp flesh or fur or whatever else there was to grasp, eyes narrowed and ears pinned back.

She wasted no time in raising from her front legs, hind legs squaring off and bending deeper to account for the shift in weight. The golden matriarch?s movements came towards the end of her pivot, with no real time lag between the two. She hoped to extend her front paw, wishing to press her left one down upon Alena?s neck, and her right upon Alena?s spine, wishing that her jaws might be between them. The golden woman sought to press down with her front weight, hind legs hoping to push against the ivory woman and knock it over. Meanwhile, her jaws hoped to maintain their grasp on Alena?s scruff, and Virgil hoped to pull upwards, desiring to pull the woman?s neck into an awkward position. Her teeth sought to grind, desiring to destroy what flesh they could on the scruff, wishing to delve deeper into the woman?s neck. There was only so much loose skin on a wolf to protect the muscle, after all, and although Virgil wasn?t likely to seek true damage, she desired to see Alena bleed. This was a show for dear Syrinx, after all.

VIRGIL vs. ALENA for SECONDARY
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