The female replied in a way that made Esti both want to grin and scowl and immediately Esti was torn between loving this fae and hating her. As the woman got into position, Esti did the same, bending her knees to keep springy while splaying and digging her toes into the ground for support. She pulled her tail level with her spine and moved her head so that it all made a loosely straight line. Esti made sure to cover her face, scrunching her eyes and pinning her ears as she pulled her neck back and rolled her shoulders to provide extra skin to protect her neck. Her fur and hackles raised and fluffed out as a barrier. Finally, Esti lowered and splayed her legs for better balance and for agility. It was show time.
The woman came at a fourty-five degree angle towards Esti's shoulders. She was low and fast, like a raven stooping for a mouse. Esti reared herself upwards to meet the woman's attack, shifting her weight evenly to her back paws as her front lifted from the ground slightly. Used to fighting her brother, Esti tried fighting up, not down. The other was at her in an instant, ramming with her right shoulder into Esti's left foreleg, causing it to spring backwards and forcing Esti to either back up or raise herself higher. The woman's jaws closed around her right ankle instead of the elbow due to Esti rising up, and Cascade's left foreleg hooked with Esti's right. Cascade's fangs sunk in and Esti felt the burn all the way up her leg. Both of their forelimbs seemed tied up from Cascade's attack, except for the woman's right leg, and Esti's balance wavered. She had to take action quickly.
Keeping her knees bent, Esti attempted to pull back against Cascade's left foreleg with her right. She hoped Cascade would give enough resistance for her plan to work. Though the woman's teeth stung, buried in her right ankle, Esti was able to work through it. Gathering her strength, Esti attempted to throw her weight forward and to her right onto Cascade, using the raven woman's attack as leverage. She aimed to knock Cascade back to twist Cascade to her left where she was weaker to pin her and hold her to the ground using her weight to her advantage. The girl's left foreleg sought to hook around Cascade's neck to help steer her downward while Esti attempted to use her right foreleg to guide the woman's head to Esti's right using Cascade's bite as both a leverage point and a coaxing point. While she planned on moving her weight, she would seek to swivel her head to the right and bite directly down from above on Cascade's left ear, aiming to get her canines at both the front and back base of the left ear, and to push it down and to her own right with her weight. Hopefully this would force the woman in the same direction, and while it would put pressure on the hold Cascade already had, Esti was betting on toppling the smaller woman and pinning her to the ground where Esti could really use her massive size and weight to her advantage.
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