Silvertip Mountain look well, o wolves

going to infer from some more recent threads that characters in this plot escaped relatively unscathed, as will shardul. last post for me! <3

they lunged, and shardul's eyes rolled wildly from the male wolf above him, to the wounded female who had returned to cry havoc toward the creatures of her pack. the child in his grasp wailed piteously, but shardul did not release him -- not yet. there was a small space to flee if he passed closely beside the pale wolf above him, and the puma did not hesitate -- dropping the boy and thrusting him aside, perhaps to fall down the ledge if fate allowed, the cat leapt for the small ridge of space.

teeth scored his flank and he clenched his jaws, but continued upon his headlong trajectory as pain burned along his flesh. droplets of crimson pattered to the stone, but the cougar did not pause, nor look behind him, as he carried his massive frame into the shadows and faded swiftly from sight.