Sublime

The game O-Six had been playing would likely have been fatal during the Druids’ heyday, but those days were long gone. In two months of chasing O-Six, this generation of Druids had never come close to catching her. She should have been dead by now, but here she was—not only alive but the healthiest, most vital wolf for miles around.

lionesses

as Wikipedia lovingly puts it, “No rugby player, no matter how talented, has ever won a game by playing alone.”