Akiada is nimble enough to keep his arms from being wrapped up and crushed, shifting them just in time to keep her from crushing either them or him, but there was little else the wolf can do. He yelps and cries out in pain as she swings him around and into the ground over and over again, weakening the wolf's defenses. Between all the exertion of the earlier fight and his flight, as well as the pain being inflicted on him, Akiada's endurance was getting run down very quickly. The wolf was entirely on the defensive and it was becoming increasingly apparent than without outside assistance, a flawed move on Christina's part, or a brilliant last-second plan that he would end up as a naught but a wriggling bulge in Christina's belly.