It took her a few seconds to realize we weren’t Siberian. She might have calmed down at that realization, but she didn’t get a chance.
I hope at no point during pulling her up did you touch her skin. That might’ve ended badly, before she could complete the thought “I can sense their biology, so they’re not Siberian”.
Siberian closed the gap in a single bound, crashing into Bentley, Lisa, Trickster and Sundancer and shoving them forward into the rest of us.
shit
We sprawled, and I felt my leg bend painfully as Sirius rolled over it.
Yeah that’d do it alright. Most legs don’t deal well with being rolled over by cars. Or car-sized dogs.
Fortunately there’s a healer around, if you can keep her and yourselves alive.
Grue banished his darkness. I could see the six of us and the two dogs, lying on the road. Nobody dead.
Wait, you didn’t banish it entirely, did you? Even if Siberian’s found you, you don’t want her to see you more than absolutely necessary to get your own bearings.