[ the light plays over spiked scales and messy fur, all of it in warm greys and dull blues. both the color scheme and the pattern are familiar enough to Krista; it's distinctly lupine, even if the scales are entirely out of place. ...and the two extra sets of legs.

whatever the creature is, it freezes at the sound of footsteps and then abruptly withdraws its head from the bin, swinging it around to glare at the girl with slit-pupilled eyes. the body might be somewhat wolflike, but aside from the ears its head is not; the face is a viper's, and so are the enormous fangs it bares in her direction. ]