Sunbeam Lair between atlas and earth

He’d only been gone for little more than a few days, barely a cause for concern, but each new move he makes to return home hurts more than the last makes it feel like it has been weeks. Most of the wounds he’s incurred have stopped bleeding, lest he open them from stumbling or simply moving too much, but enough blood had been lost over the course of the last twelve hours that he can barely think straight. It is luck that he has made it this far.

The lair is within view but his legs can’t hold him up anymore. He stumbles one more time and hits the ground, not bothering to pick himself up because he’s sure he won’t be able to. The cougar had caught him by surprise when he’d been pursuing a herd, trying to drive it back toward Ryūjin so he could get the help of others and they can feast. He had been far too focused on them and not the rest of his surroundings when the large cat had taken him down. He barely stood a chance and a surprise he’d been left with a little life left.

The biggest wound, down his flank and park of his thigh is the biggest, oozing down into the snow. Other scratches and bites litter the rest of him and his ear is split and several bald spots, free of fur, dot his back side. Ukko heaves a sigh and allows the cold snow to engulf him, the numbness starting on his understand more than welcome to his burning frame.