Cerulean Cape creep eastward

The air caught the underside of one wing, but another draft pulsed across her back from the opposite direction. As the owl tried to compensate for one, the other sent her looping further out to sea - or sharply down and towards the rocks sitting jagged against the coastline.

It took a few tries as well as some exceptional timing for the bird to catch another updraft in time, and by then she was mercifully closer to the landform where the wolf watched her. With all her focus on flying through the turbulence, Aniuk wasn't exactly attentive to the terrestrial creatures or the dangers they might pose.

As she felt the current begin to taper she pulled her wings together, dropping her talons towards an outstretched beam of hemlock, and missed it by a hair, which forced her to open her wings up fully again, sending her back up.

The air currents had other plans, though. With the increased surface area of her wing span, the tempest pushed her down instead, in to the trees, after which a scrabbling sound could be heard as she tried to hold fast.