Noctisardor Bypass [raid] going deeper underground

for clarity, laurel, indra, and merrick have split into this thread and so will no longer be included in current thread rounds <3

mahler sawed his head back and forth with vicious tearing. blood weltered along the side of his throat. the boy he had grabbed was hard and rangy; he twisted harshly in the graf's teeth, straining the ability of his own muscles. agony seared into being as the other ursus wolf grabbed his ruff, ripping through with silverwhite teeth that brought blood immediately in a well.
there was a third beyond; abel's terrified cries haunted the man.
you have failed
where was wylla? phaedra? sequoia? he counted them all with a fierce desperation that they had escaped, that his wife had somehow gathered them and led them from this. but he knew she would never depart in such a way, and it meant that she still grappled with ursus wolves inside rivenwood.
elsewhere, a place mahler could not be.
merrick! streaking beyond them, the — cave!
no
mahler forced his mind to stratagem. releasing the male would guarantee three stood before him renewed; refusal to relinquish meant the possible maiming of one whilst two ended his own life; he held the biting down for a moment and then ripped up and away;
the ursus wolf thrown as harshly as he was able; a snarling breath cutting from his throat and a bison's thickened snort before he rounded heavily upon the young female, seeking to crush her smaller frame and thereby end the more delicate of his enemies.
head filling with red, heart wheeling. mahler did not know how long he might be able to keep this stand, but keep it he must.