MABEL
She wasn’t there for Wessex’s approval, but took it anyway, stepping forward on the encouraging aspects, to live and thrive in the shadows, to take upon the speed of evening doldrums and dark interfolds.
There was hardly a difference in height differentials – but certainly in strength. The youth had zero desire to be notched and nettled by those claws, even if she wouldn’t be able to feel it – inherent instinct. Even a predator didn’t want to be caught out by another larger, stronger, mightier foe.
So she took what she’d learned from Aurelia, striving to shift out of range, and to tuck her daggers near Wessex’s side; a neat, quick little pivot of feet and movement. Not haphazard. Not impulsive – driven, calculated, beginning to form into muscle memory.
There was hardly a difference in height differentials – but certainly in strength. The youth had zero desire to be notched and nettled by those claws, even if she wouldn’t be able to feel it – inherent instinct. Even a predator didn’t want to be caught out by another larger, stronger, mightier foe.
So she took what she’d learned from Aurelia, striving to shift out of range, and to tuck her daggers near Wessex’s side; a neat, quick little pivot of feet and movement. Not haphazard. Not impulsive – driven, calculated, beginning to form into muscle memory.
I bare my teeth
and stretch my claws out
and stretch my claws out
