Broken Boulder finsternis [bwp]

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arcas had gone and asra had not come back. his sons had faded into their own world, perhaps dispersed early. he had searched and searched and returned home weary, empty-handed, empty. wylla had not come back and mahler did not know why he had hoped. had he not told her to surrender her hopes in him? of course she would return.
two days ago, snow had billowed over the bracken wood. upon warning phaedra, bidding her travel to the cracked stone, he had shouted to @Star, searching for @Calcifer and for @Marble with a quick step, to command their attention and lead them to the others. a sharp howl to in hopes reach @Praimfaya and @Sequoia. a final cry for @Astraeus, swallowed by the throat of the oncoming storm. 
two days ago he had bid them all underground beneath the broken boulder.
and now as the gargoyle shoved his shoulders to create a break and a pathway upward through the drifts that had gathered, he was met with only howling wind and sharp scudding palmfuls of snow, falling, falling, as mahler squinted in all directions and felt resolution take the place of fear.