His lips curled in a primal sneer of lust and rage. For too long he had been denied and tonight he would taste his desire. The ground seemed to shake beneath his feet, flared nostrils smelling the girl's trail.  The stench of freshly disturbed rotting leaves paved his path to her hiding place. The beast's midnight black fur almost appearing as a mane of rage as it roared into the darkness before galloping onwards.<br/><br/>Tree limbs older than the beast itself snapped like rotting twigs beneath its advance, claws scarring the ground as only an apex predator could. It's prey was gaining ground and if the beast was to have its catch then the pace must be quickened.<br/><br/>Fire red eyes pierced the darkness, the sight of the house in the near distance eliciting a smirk of hunger from the wolf before it launched itself at the frail wooden door. The old wood splintered into a thousand pieces, the frame shattering as its shoulders pushed them aside from sheer force of will. The air itself visibly trembled at the roar unleashed, the beasts hair shuddering in fury.