OOC: Round three has not started yet! I'm just waking her fat-butt up. Feel free to reference any of the Upper Tiers running around and follow to safety!
The siren of alarm was raised both within dream and out, though it took a considerable moment before it reached the conscious mind. Her spell had been deep, but the ambient noise of the danger beyond the den was a calamity even the deepest of sleeps would not deafen her to. The walls of the earthly haven echoed with the shattering of rock and ice, startling the beast awake and wide-eyed. The sudden adrenaline set a charge through her heart, yet as she rose the course had not reached her limbs to aid her rise and frantic scramble for the entrance. As if walking for the first time, she stumbled twice then clambered against for the entrance, though stood for a moment in horror as ice bore down from the mountains to barricade the entrance. Light was dwindling was darkness crept with each cluster of ice and rock impacted upon the entrance.
When there was but a sliver of hope in that light, her stupor shattered and she charged for the entranced with head tucked. Her body became aligned as a ram thick head braced against her shoulders as she turned slightly in her charge. The collision was sharp, ice biting through the thinning fur to raw flesh, yet she felt it give way as she applied her force against it. The weight was malleable as the worst had not yet fallen, and with a stubborn push, gave way as she burst through the barrier to breathe again the free air.
Her paws felt the ice beneath as did her back feel the pummel of frigid rock as it rained upon the mountain’s base, but she did not pause to look behind and take stock of her home now hurried beneath the ice. A home could be remade. A life, however, could not. Immediately her thoughts went to her packmates as the wails of warning and alarm reached shattering proportions. Her own call was raised, letting those therein and nearby know she was alive and searching. Her priority were the subordinates, undoubtedly lost and confused with this change in nature. She had to find them.
She had to make sure they were safe. |