Redsand Canyon once upon a younger year

@Donovan Azura - set August 21st, immediately after this thread

Hide honestly didn't remember much toward the end of the fight. Only a splitting headache and then his legs being unable to hold him up, and then... nothing. He'd come into awareness a few times on this journey, but he'd suspected he'd had to have been carried or supported some of the way there, because he absolutely wouldn't have made this journey on his own. 

The ground was hard-packed here, and rough on his paw pads. He was accustomed to leaf litter and mud and sand, not rocks and grit and gravel. It felt bad beneath his feet, and he supposed it was the discomfort that brought him back to a state of at least semi-consciousness.

"Where'm I?" he asked groggily, eyes still squinting from the headache behind his skull. The steady thump, thump, thump of its pounding was becoming familiar to him, but that didn't make it any more bearable. Along with the ringing in his ear, which seemed to be improving slightly as time went on, it was wearing down on the boy.