One moment Lucian was stepping forward, speaking to the two arrivals and the next all hell breaks loose. Warning bells blare in her head as she watches Lucian being grabbed and forcibly slammed into the wall beside the door. 

Her attention zeroed in on the woman who had been smirking at her seconds ago, eyes scanning her expression. She looked different now, features distorted in a way that had her swallowing. Then the attacks came from claws that extended from her fingertips, thin and sharp-looking as they sliced through air. 

A flash of white in the finner of her eye had her looking away, stomach churning when she saw Pipper aiding Lucian. The girls taunting words drew her focus back long enough to lift her lips in a snarl before claws met her skin. There's an echoing snarl in her head as she steps back, pain racing along her skin as she takes stock of what just happened. 

Something that felt like liquid heat coiled in her chest as the wound across her cheek slowly healed, anger spreading through her veins until it was all she could focus on. Unnoticed her own features shifted to match the other womans, longer canines and her nails becoming claws. Her vision sharpened significantly as she dropped down to a crouch, hands lifting in front of her face as if she knew how to fight. She could make out the movement of muscles beneath thin skin, the sweat that was coating her skin as she lunged forward again. The beat of her heart along the column of her throat, and the individual lasbes that fluttered as she moved. 

Though her heart was pounding in her ears, Aneira could feel nothing but detached calmness. Something in her saying that this wasn't going to be any normal fight, not by a long shot. The girl snarled and rushed forward when her taunting was with no reaction,  Aneira ducked and lifted a leg up instinctively to aim a kick 

The girl was sent flying into the same door they'd just opened, only to immediately come lunging out with bared teeth and glowing eyes. A yip met her ears seconds before Echo came flying out over the shattered door, little ears lowered and teeth on display. 

Aneira felt her body shifting within a beat of her heart, form shifting and then lunging forward with a growl. She caught Echo as he was sent flying, pausing long enough to gently set him down before spinning on her heel. 

They met with a body-crushing slam of their bodies, jaws snapping at one another on a bid to injure. Claws meeting vulnerable underbellies and digging in, Aneira stepping away only to lunge forward again to ram her head against the girls side that sent her flying back and hitting the elderly man she'd been with.