Emberflame Ridge Your name is a sin I breathe

Through the dark of it all, there came a creeping figure. At first they looked translucent as if carved of sheer ice. There was no way something like that could exist with all the fire around him! His mind went to overcorrect, and he saw the shape of the wolf take true form. He saw his father's face where the stranger's face should've been; and when they spoke, their mouth hinged as wide as an eel's, splitting on either side — like mother.

Their words were garbled. Hypnos heard it in reverse.
ko uoy era yeh?

He cowered and pressed himself in to the dirt, having crushed the snow already and sprawled in a way that dredged up mud, and as a result he was truly hurting himself with the urge to be small. Grinding himself in to the grit.