Ankyra Sound burning, falling down so many times before

Raleska felt her adrenaline pumping as she watched the Rusalkan wolves determinedly file into the Grotto after her mother, their forms swallowed into the blackness as if they marched into a giant maw. Steeling the fear that threatened to overcome her (and determinedly reminding herself of how she had faltered with Eurycrates) Raleska found a sliver of courage and marched resolutely after them.

It was black and dark in the Grotto, and as they went one by one down the cavern, Raleska's fear converted into primal protectiveness - her home was being invaded, and standing among the faces of her packmates, she felt her spirits bolstered.

She nearly walked right into her mother's backside as they hit the Cavern -- there was little light, most of it shed from the luminous pool in the center of the cavern. As she looked up, her heart leapt to her throat, for before them stood the towering figure of the cat.

She was aware of a flash of the cat's demonic eyes, and then it sprung upon them. Her mother was flung aside with a shriek, and Raleska screamed as she watched her mother get struck down. She tried to rush to Caiaphas's side, only to feel a sudden lightlessness as she too was flung into the air in a spectacular swipe. She saw the cavern, the wolves below her, her mother, even the swiftly retreating backside of the cat, all as she cartwheeled through the air.. and then she landed, her head struck against the stone, and all went black.