mira

The little rabbit was flushed out as intended into Raven's waiting jaws, it was an easy capture. Too easy. Mira always enjoyed the hunt but what she liked most was the challenge it so provided. Her mind calculated and the careful execution made he feel alive. She moved fluidly toward Raven, the usually sweet wolf that was so fearful and skittish around her. It was nice to see her so carefree, so lost within the glee of the hunt. It was enough to get the blood pumping, the mind fixated on one goal as they give into their feral selves, freeing them. But what Mira didn't anticipate was the subtle shift within the wolf before her, her mind unhinged in a way that it could be tangible. One could see it in her eyes, see how the once warm gleam of Raven's soft eyes turned harder, turned into an unpredictable wildness. A wildness that wasn't even entirely like their wolf counterparts but something else entirely. If it were not the eyes, it was in the way she hissed within her mind, a sinister warning hidden in plain words. Hardly like the woman she was moments ago. She paused for a moment, analyzing the other wolf, her golden eyes glowing softly, knowing as she had met this beast once before. A good creature to have on your side but a bad foe to have.

The dominance prickled within Mira, like a static charge that made her want to challenge that very statement of possessiveness. Much like how it was in her previous pack, nostalgia weighed heavily upon her. She could feel that familiar wave of heat of that lava that moved just below her surface, pulsing like a finger on a trigger. Mira peered at her with an even stare, her eyes even with her shoulders. There was a moment she regretted approaching the other she-wolf. She should have stayed to herself, there was a small battle waged within the lava wolf. One unseen, one she wasn't sure she could control if it began to ooze out of her.

Instead she speaks her voice contrived into a state of calm, if Raven lost it, most likely Mira would too. She couldn't have that. "You still in there Raven?" Mira questioned, keeping her own surging instincts down. She couldn't trigger the feral beast in Raven for her own sake as well at Raven's. She had very little control over her newfound powers and given the chance of any kind of confrontation she wasn't quite sure she could contain it. The oddly patterned she-wolf suddenly shook her head as if to rid a fly, she could practically see the internal struggle that waged within the other. She drew in a steady breath knowing how close the oddly patterned wolf was to losing it.

Her gaze met with Mira's own suddenly as if somehow becoming lucid. That shift in her eye clearly evident.

Just like that she let the pinned rabbit go. For a moment it stood there stunned before skittering off with frantic urgency.

"My snack? I am very certain you were very adamant that he was your snack. In fact you seemed very fixated on the little guy, you sure you wanted to let him go? Any longer I am sure you would have suffocated it. Anyways.. I am sure he will still die of fear." She teased the last few words. Surely she would know exactly what she was referring to."You doing ok? I thought I lost you.." Mira asked, unsure if she was truly Raven and still not on the cusp of that feral beast she met upon their first encounter. She wasn't quite sure she wanted to meet without the buffer of an evil chew toy to attack.

Suddenly, shattering the usual calm of the forest there was a very large screeching sound in the distance, a very inhuman sound that was bone chilling. It was as if the whole forest was silenced, not a single damn thing. It didn't sound like a feline, a candid or anything she had ever heard of. That eerie silence was like every creature in the wood was afraid to move, as if time itself held its breath even if only for a moment. Mira's ebony ears flicker upon her head as if unsure she had truly heard what she had.

She lifted her obsidian hued muzzle to scent the air. "Did you hear that?" She questioned, her golden eyes narrowed, tipping her head slightly to the right. It sounded close enough, but there was no sound that followed it. Curiosity stirred within her chest wondering what kind of creature could cause such a sound. Perhaps it was worth investigating. Or perhaps the woods were not as safe as she originally thought.