Dragoncrest Cliffs Tempest

This will be my last post here but feel free to powerplay Stingray as needed for the rest of it. <3

Stingray dropped his nose to the ground and began to draw panicked circles in the snow, hunting for Swordfish's scent well away from where his brother's tracks actually led. He wasn't half the hunter Fish was even at the best of times, but with chaos erupting all around and his parents' dismay bleeding into him, Stingray could hardly think straight at all.

Meerkat's cries didn't register at first, but her final shriek drew Stingray's head up and around. His heart was pounding so hard he felt it would burst out of his chest. Njord said the bear was back. Swordfish was gone. The connection between these two was forged in an instant. He began to breathe harder and felt like he was suffocating no matter how much air he sucked in.

Njord addressed him. Through the pounding of his own heart in his ears, his father's voice sounded impossibly distant, but Stingray did hear them. He nodded his head and prepared to follow his parents, only now noticing there was a trail away from the den.

Maybe Swordfish was faster than the bear after all.