Mount Everfall I'm gonna go stop the Big Bad Wolf.

She felt a deep pang in her breast. X had been scouting, per her orders, when he had seen Orca slip and fall. He'd had a bird's eye view (literally) as she tumbled to her death. And there had been nothing he could do to help her, nothing to do but watch her die. Towhee closed her eyes, which was a bit like immersing herself in a sensory deprivation tank. She leaned a little harder into Niamh as she fought the mental images flashing through her head.

Her eyes only reopened when she felt something nudge her foreleg. X had hopped over to stand beside the pair of wolves. Towhee slipped forward onto her belly, putting her at roughly eye level with the bird. "I'm so sorry you had to see that, X," she said to him. "She just... fell?" She hated to make him relive it, especially since he'd already conveyed all this, but Towhee needed to be sure she understood the details of her sister's final moments.