Firestone Hot Springs I will go anywhere, provided it be forward

What a way to be woken up - by unholy sounds that tore the caller's soul and receiver's eardrums apart. Dwin woke with a jolt and nearly fell in the hot water pool. She was still half-asleep and pretty disoriented, looking around for the source of the sound. The howl echoed in the forests and mountains again and it was then, when her gaze finally met another alien. 

She still remembered the deer-wolf-like Skeletor, who she hoped had by now taken her advice to heart and found a proper home and friends for winter. The beast she was looking at now was of an entirely different sort. Large, massive, odd-coloured. Had her parents not shown a bear in the distance once, she would have thought that this was the animal. 

Since her last encounter had gone well and it did sound as if this guy was in big trouble, she slunk closer to the creature and stopped at a safe distance, but still within earshot. "What's wrong with you?" Dwin called out.