"They're trying to pin us down!" Su Qinglan shouted, clutching Hu Yan's fur. "They want us to be sitting ducks for the beast tide!"
Anger bubbled up in her chest. She saw a birdman try to snatch a bundle of hides from an elderly fox woman, nearly knocking the grandmother to the ground.
"You greedy, pathetic scavengers!" Su Qinglan screamed up at them.
The Bird Tribe didn't care. They saw the Fox Tribe as a dying people, and they wanted to pick the bones clean before the "real" monsters arrived.
Su Qinglan couldn't take it anymore.
Watching those birds dive down to snatch food from the elderly and terrify the children made her blood boil. She looked down at the dark, powerful form gliding beside Hu Yan.
"Xuan Long!" she shouted over the wind.
"Knock these useless birds out of the sky! Throw them as far as you can!"
Xuan Long didn't need to be told twice. He had been quietly simmering in rage, his green scales blending perfectly with the forest floor.
