[center][h3][color=crimson][b]Tholl[/b][/color][/h3][/center][hr] Hurtling through the undergrowth with a speed born of a fresh vendetta  on her mind, Tholl carved a swath through the wilderness in pursuit of the cloven hoof prints. The  red impression upon the ground a firm path seemingly certain to lead to a culprit, and her claws gnashed together in anticipation of the conflict. It was not with blood lust and savagery she hunted the killer, but a sense of being grossly affronted by a murder under her supervision. She'd be just as upset if a Wal-Mart opened across from her store, more so because murdering the owner of a rival franchise didn't solve anyone's problems that a lawyer couldn't and with less of a mess.

However aspirations of carving several pounds of flesh from the campus' assailant withered on the spot when she and all her extra eyes found the path before them evaporate into thin air. Rather then cloven hooves and bloody claws, she came to find a perfectly average wolf. Which in and of itself was rather suspect given Hikari academy wasn't [i]that[/i] far removed from society to have wolves casually roaming in the back woods. Coyotes or feral dogs? Sure. But a wolf carried connotations of its own.

[color=crimson]"Easy there."[/color] Tholl spoke to the beast in a calm and soothing fashion honed well in her scholastic pursuits of education. At a thought one hand shifted back into a more human fashion and she extended it forward, palm upwards for the beast to approach and sniff. All the while she kept the claw at her side and began to weave a collar of silk to fit around the beast. [color=crimson]"I don't see any blood on ya' but I can't really just let a wolf wander around behind the school. Why don't you come over here and I'll take you back to the nice Head Mistress so she can read your mind and find you a good home~"[/color]

At least, Tholl hoped Aria's skills extended to beasts of all kinds. As far as she knew, this Wolf was a potential witness to the killer fleeing the scene.