Everything happened way too fast. One moment, Aurora was still standing outside her kitchen while looking lost, and the next moment she was right in front of Reis with a claw knife pressed right against his throat.
Even she's not too sure how she pulled it off, but somehow she's quick enough in that moment to surpass the fox's sharp senses and hold him captive exactly how she planned.
Her grip on the claw knife never loosened for even a second as she stared straight into Reis' amber eyes. Her entire body radiated a deadly coldness that felt completely out of place for someone standing in the middle of a forest with grass and mud smeared over her hands.
The sharp edge of the polished object rested against Reis' throat so precisely that a single wrong movement would slice his skin open, and the terrifying part was not the weapon itself but the fact that the female holding it looked entirely capable of doing exactly that without hesitation.
