Oak Tree Bend flesh & bone

I suck. That is all. We could probably wrap this up with your post if you want?

Instinctively, Serach's mouth opened as his body hit the water, gasping as he was submerged into the cold liquid. His eyes burned as he blinked furiously, trying to keep them open so he could keep sight of the beaver. But it was futile - this was not a wolf's domain and they both knew it. Kicking his legs angrily, the Bend subordinate pushed himself to the surface, spitting up water as he fought for his first breath of fresh air. The beaver was not kind enough to let him go, his large dull teeth digging into Serach's thigh, pulling him back under again. Why did you have to be so stupid? his brain screamed at him, as once again he parted his lips and attempted to at least look like he was snarling under water.

In all the chaos, they had moved closer to the bank. Thrashing his legs in a wild attempt to both swim and keep the beaver away from him, Serach felt a great feeling of relief as his feet touched the muddy sand of the bottom of the stream. On relatively solid footing once again, the wolf forced his way out of the water, rear first - his front end still preoccupied snapping and snarling at the beaver to keep it away. Thankfully, the beaver was not so foolish to try and pursue him now that he was on land, although the aching in Serach's thigh told him it would not have been as one-sided as a fight as it otherwise would have been, and remained in the water, just its head above as it gnashed its teeth angrily at Serach.

Turning his head, Serach caught sight of Sahalie. Thankfully, the pair were on the same side of the stream, safely away from the pissed off rodents. Limping towards her, Serach tried to smile in a reassuring manner, although it probably came off more as a grimace than anything else. "I may have been a little overconfident," he admitted sheepishly, trying to shrug it off. She looked shaken, but she hadn't gotten into any direct altercation with the beavers, and so otherwise seemed unharmed. "Last time I messed with a beaver, I was with my older siblings and there was only one beaver." No doubt the experience had only served to inflate his confidence, when really, he should have been more careful. "Maybe we should head back to the den? It's cold out here." Shaking his body to illustrate his point, he sent water droplets everywhere, leaving melted holes in the snow where they landed.

Her teeth worked hard on her lips as she watched Serach fall in and then abruptly bob to the surface. Her eyes darted back and forth between her packmate and the beaver. It was clear that despite his enthusiasm for beaver hunting, swimming was not Serach's strong suit in the same was as it was the beaver's. It had grabbed ahold of his back end with those terrifying teeth, hindering the pale wolf's swimming abilities immensely. "Serach!" she cried, feeling utterly helpless as she paced the bank and the tussle unfolded. 

Somehow Serach had the strength in him to pull against the massive beaver's weight enough to get to the shore, and the girl raced to his side. She had intended to grab the slippery bastard and yank it off Serach's thigh, killing it or something, but by the time she arrived it had already given up and was waddling back into the water. Her eyes narrowed as it's rump wiggled into the water, her paws dangling in front of her as if to go after it. Serach's voice tore her away though. He seemed in a bad way, though he was trying to smile through the evident pain. Some blood was running freely down his leg and her eyebrows creased with worry.

She opened her mouth to say sorry but only made a croaking noise. If only she had been a better hunting partner then perhaps the whole thing would not have been such a failure. Serach had been doing his best, but Sahalie had only made a mess and gotten in the way. Her tail wrapped around her shamefully uninjured legs. "Come on, we'll find someone to look at that leg," was all that she could manage, as she brushed up against his still-sodden pelt in a gesture of sympathy.