Chade had gone with Ruse to patrol the stone garden borders, jogging along looking for any sign of trouble.  The blue-toned wolf enjoyed the chore, always hopeful of finding a bear to kill.  He would never forgive the lumbering giants for the action of one of their kind.  Scouting ahead his cheetah, Swift, roamed about helping in their search.

In the end Chade’s hope of finding a fight came true but it wasn’t s fun as a bear.  The giant cat appeared to be tiger though, it was completely black.  There were technically stripes in there but it was just a matter of dark grey on black.  Chade smelled it about the same moment as Swift ran back towards Chade to say she saw it.  There was no need for Chade and Ruse to race to the tiger, it had decided to chase after Swift.

“No ya don’t,” Chade snarled at the black cat, running forward.  “Hey Ruse, don’t you think this cat will make a pretty pelt?”  Chade shoved himself in the pth between cheetah and tiger.  Chade slammed his right shoulder into the cat's left, making it shift a bit off balance but it was fast to turn to retaliate. The black tiger spun to bite at Chade which had the blue wolf spinning about to keep out of range of its fangs.  

Swift was slowly circling about, the cheetah being much more cautious when she fought.

"Chade"

As she slowly got more comfortable and to a point where she could call herself "proficient" in her fighting training, Ruse started to pick up a patrol here and there with some of the warriors of the pack. She saw how hard Cerb was working at his tasks and she wanted to make sure she was pulling her weight just as much. She hadn't exactly felt like she had more leniency back in Fenmyre when she was living with what was mostly her family, but she didn't feel as if she had as much to prove. Now she was here with wolves that still felt mostly unknown to her and she felt a bit of an obligation to show what the Klien wolves were capable of.

She trotted along the border beside Chade who was her partner for today's patrol along with her forever shadow in the form of her companion Hoax. It was a fairly quiet and uneventful patrol—at least until it wasn't. Chade's cheetah ran back to alert them of the big cat in their path, not that it was hard to miss the big, black tiger. She immediately got into a more defensive stance while Chade ran forward into the fight to meet the tiger head on. She heard his comment about the tiger making a pretty pelt and she snickered a bit, smirking as she ran to dart around to the opposite side of their new opponent. While Chade slammed his shoulder into the tiger and danced a bit to avoid it's fangs, she bounced in toward its hind leg, landing a solid bite on its ankle before bouncing back out of the way again. She was quick on her feet and focused mostly on just keeping out of the way while getting attacks in where she could.

"Rusalka Alondra Klein"