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Red was pleased with the mess she had made. She turned from the steaming mess that had been a Baowi to its partner – the one she'd injured.

It stared at its friend, its packmate, and howled, more of its hot blood spilling to the snow as it screamed its fury and grief to the winds.

“Boo hoo.” said Red, knowing she was being unkind. It did not bother her much, though she felt she was in the wrong. “If you're so upset, then come at me.” she smirked, a truly awful sight as she was well-speckled with the red blood of the other Baowi now. No longer was she an unblooded adept.

The beast, grief stricken and in pain, took her challenge. It bounded towards her in a reckless charge, bowling her over onto the snow. She dodged as it swiped at her, its claws catching in the snow as she punched it, her icicle claws driving into it.

It screamed and attacked, but it was slowing. She dodged and struck, getting only fur, but her punch had hit something. Something important. The beast frothed red at its mouth as it clawed at her, its eyes bloodshot. She let it come.

And then she punched through its eye.

It shuddered, once. And then the life went out of it, and it fell like a deflated doll to the ground. It had been a baowi.

And now it was nothing.

Red allowed herself a moment or two to gloat.

“See?!” she said, standing over the bodies of the two Baowi, their punctured skulls leaking onto the ground, “I said I'd get ya, and I did. You all might have done a number on me before, but this time... this time...” she pointed at herself, “I got you!”

It was a beautiful, glorious moment.

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