OOC: Round Three is here! Remember, if you have not posted yet, your character is considered 'lost' but not dead. If your character is in need of rescue, please PM someone and we'll get you out, otherwise have them surface at you convenience. LET IT BEGIN!
With what might she could muster, she willed herself not to look behind as the mountain groaned, and instead applied more distance between herself and the rolling sheets. Though the pace of a wolf could match that of fleeting prey, the advance of nature was unrelenting and cruel. It did not exhaust, it did not falter. It needed look to the path ahead for safety, only barrel through what obstacles stood in its path. It was only a matter of time before the ice caught to her heels and in its curl rain down heavy shards of rock and ice.
Her howls soon silenced when the roar of the wave behind deafened her efforts, and focused instead on reaching more stable ground. None had yet to heed her calls, and with the silence came worry for those she knew to live under the shadow of the mountain. She had a mind to turn and call for them again, regardless of how lost her voice would have been to the rage of the ice. But she could not… she had to see to those that had pulled themselves from the frigid clutches. Charging forward still, she headed toward the Chenrezig in the heart of the territory, hoping that the snow would exhaust itself before reaching the sacred bark.
In due time the mountain would come to settle. The ice dislodged from the sudden warmth of spring rested at the base of the mountain and a several yards inward, downing the towering pines of the forest and laying upon the Vale a new form of winter. Earthen dens were collapsed. Caves were blocked by the piles of ice barring their way. Yet at the near top of the mountain, new openings have appeared… yet with the devastation below it was doubtful few would take a moment to notice the treasures revealed. Only time would bring such discoveries to light. |