Totoka River keep cool but care

roll here! this is incomprehensible and i apologize. call it experimental i guess????

yunxu takes hold.

holds on.

the teeth in his shoulder don’t budge but they tighten, owlglass is laughing still fucking laughing yunxu snarls louder and louder until it shakes his chest drowns out the noise he is still smiling around the fur and flesh and yunxu’s jaws tighten like a vise –

not enough.

owlglass pulls yunxu off his neck. shakes him like a toy, back and forth and back and forth until his toes no longer touch the ground wet warmth streaks over the join of his neck and shoulder pain spikes through him runs down his spine

he turns back, keeps his footing only barely, owlglass is growling too and the rain and the wind, yunxu snaps strikes out for face or neck or shoulder to dig in and pull and tear

water roars and so does the blood in his ears, so does the bottom of his chest, so does the storm and none of it means anything but a crescendo driving him forward blank-eyed, all teeth and claws and instinct