Though Porcupine Ridge had an abundance of safe places through which to travel, it also housed a plethora of treacherous bites, hazardous to the very lives of the wolves who called it home. There was one such ledge, on a northeast cliff, that overlooked the immediate area (ten feet below) nicely. It was a lovely vantage point for the eagle-eyed, but there was also a massive hole in the outcropping that was about five feet wide in jagged circumference and nearly seven feet deep. It opened up to the ground below in a sharply slanted fashion, and from any angle you came at it, it was difficult to notice before it was too late. It was a nice, sliding drop. It would be more than easy to break something...
But this was only The Hole seventy percent of the year. Twenty-five percent of the year, during the height of winter, it is completely and utterly compacted with snow, making it no threat at all. And then the other five percent, during the first build and after the first melt for a brief time, it becomes a path/slide: a quick way down to the bottom.
Diane found out by accident on this particularly warm day. The ground was slush, and The Hole was filled but soft, ready to cave in at any time. The tentative seawolf padded her way up the slender slope that flanked the upper ledges, taking her directly and fortuitously up to the ledge harboring It. As she carefully approached the edge so that she might overlook the valley beneath, she took a second step over The Hole and all of it sunk in. Everything was slow at first, she almost thought she could back-pedal out of it; but the momentum picked up before she could even start scrambling and gravity took its course as it pulled her down in an inescapable downward drift.
Everything went dark as she fell through the hole; it seemed it would go on forever. Then suddenly the snow gave outwards, and Diane flipped forward into the bright of day again, tumbling down the last few feet of the snow-made slope(slide) as she she struggled to right herself against the fall.
She landed, writhing and buried upside down, right up to her hips, where she began a valiant struggle to unsuccessfully free herself. The snow muffled her cries.
But this was only The Hole seventy percent of the year. Twenty-five percent of the year, during the height of winter, it is completely and utterly compacted with snow, making it no threat at all. And then the other five percent, during the first build and after the first melt for a brief time, it becomes a path/slide: a quick way down to the bottom.
Diane found out by accident on this particularly warm day. The ground was slush, and The Hole was filled but soft, ready to cave in at any time. The tentative seawolf padded her way up the slender slope that flanked the upper ledges, taking her directly and fortuitously up to the ledge harboring It. As she carefully approached the edge so that she might overlook the valley beneath, she took a second step over The Hole and all of it sunk in. Everything was slow at first, she almost thought she could back-pedal out of it; but the momentum picked up before she could even start scrambling and gravity took its course as it pulled her down in an inescapable downward drift.
Everything went dark as she fell through the hole; it seemed it would go on forever. Then suddenly the snow gave outwards, and Diane flipped forward into the bright of day again, tumbling down the last few feet of the snow-made slope(slide) as she she struggled to right herself against the fall.
She landed, writhing and buried upside down, right up to her hips, where she began a valiant struggle to unsuccessfully free herself. The snow muffled her cries.
Pseudo pack "activity" anyone? Multiples preferred 8)
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nature's motion pictures presents - by Diane - February 25, 2016, 04:24 PM
RE: nature's motion pictures presents - by Jhala - February 26, 2016, 10:37 AM
RE: nature's motion pictures presents - by Diane - March 01, 2016, 12:14 PM
RE: nature's motion pictures presents - by Jhala - March 03, 2016, 12:08 PM
RE: nature's motion pictures presents - by Diane - March 16, 2016, 12:02 AM