It is as I hoped. The pup takes off in fear beneath the sounds of my snapping jaws, her fear spiking my own to a miserable level. I fancy I can hear the large paws of Seline behind me, her breath on the tip of my tail, her teeth ready to drag me back to the den that had been my hell. Maybe I deserved it. It wasn't like I knew what to do with freedom, not until Zeus showed up in my life and gave me a reason to exist. That was merely a bit of chance on my part, finding him lying on that ridge. My jaws snap and I am so out of it that I don't even realize it is me so I bark in response, one of fright, and practically bowl the child over as my fore paws jolt Inanna along at a swifter rate. "Go, go, go," I chant to her, wanting to run and to fly and to dig beneath the earth for safety. I was well and truly insane. Part of me KNEW she wasn't there but I also knew she had cursed me and she would never let me go.

Finally I spy him, his large figure at the edge of the water and lapping up it's contents in a lazy manner. My heart unclenches at the sight of him, my fear plummeting and adrenaline wearing off. He would protect the child and I was safe near him. I mean, just look at the size of his fangs! My paws slow of their own accord. Inanna races forward and into the depths of his paws, probably just as assured as I am that his large figure would protect her. My jaws part in pants as I stop a few feet from him while she pleads with him. Help, help, but I had helped her. There is sorrow in my gaze as my steel eyes drop down to the earth, eyeing an ant hill as if it had all the answers in the world.

"No!," I say with sudden vehemence, glancing up at him with owl-like eyes. "No, I saved her! Seline, she was going to get her, and I saved her. I... think she is gone." Nervously I look over my shoulder, ears flicking to and fro before I huff and sit down, clearly still winded. "She eats children." My words are quiet, as if by saying them I was conjuring a demon, and a haunted look clings to my face. While Zeus was my friend he didn't know much about me. I didn't want to tell him most of it. He might look at me different. Think I'm just as frail as everyone else did, a coward and weakling. To him I wanted to remain strong and clever. "I won't let her eat any more. Can you watch her and make sure she is safe?" I blink at him, not really noticing the way he watches me with a sort of befuddled expression - or was he mad? I didn't know, I just knew I could trust him, one of the only people in the world, and I was helping him. I don't speak to the girl, unsure what to say because now I was HER Seline, HER nightmare, and to think on it would break me to pieces.