Board Thread:Important Logs/@comment-34754862-20170630233851/@comment-28929139-20170701063645

There it was. Those "footprints" they saw in the snow were actually pawprints of a single wolf. Unless this was a lone wolf, there were likely more and soon enough Kideme got confirmation of that. That being said, she definitely had to rely on and trust that Zaiko's golden eyes would see what lay ahead of them.

Even if this was the time for them to rest and wait for the others to play and tire themselves out, Kideme could not and would not relax with that information on her mind. She constantly switched between being fed her own vision and that of what the black ant could see outside the cave. Thankfully with it crawling onto a north facing branch, she was getting a first class view of the area prefacing the cave.

So near the advent of gray tinted twilight, Kideme saw the wolves long before they even got near the mouth of the cave. "We've got company. They didn't RVSP." Pulling her shamisen from her back, Kideme hastily moved out of the cave and sucked in her belly while channeling her chakra. Ten angry puppies were closing in on them and Kideme ran up the trunk of the nearest tree since even the largest of wolves lacked the physical means to climb. Zaiko didn't seem the least bit alarmed by them though, but Kideme wasn't taking her chances. Holding the neck of her shamisen in her right hand, she clamped her legs around the tree's trunk up near its bald top while she dug out a senbon with her left. She redirected a bit of her personal electricity into the pencil sized silver needle before chucking it toward the largest of the wolves, aiming for the needle to impale the meaty region of its throat for a quick but vicious kill. "Here kitty kitty kitty.....come eat a slap."

Alot of what could happen next highly depended on whether or not the wolves were actually kept out. If they were and Kideme landed the hit, the wolf would have been electrocuted with a stab to its doggy juggular. If the needle missed, then Kideme got her shamisen into position and she began to strum a melody to lure them over toward her tree, which was within the protected vicinty of the barrier.

However, if the wolves did get through and she missed, Kideme reached down to grab Zaiko before he could be trounced if he was close enough. If such was the case, she had to pull him up by the neck since his armor was far too slick to grab.