Ocean's Breath Plateau dancing doe

sorry

aditya didn't rouse quickly these days, but the shriek was like sudden cold water over his head - he woke with numb limbs and bristling fur, eyes widening in panic. there was much activity among the lodges, and above the din, he heard chakliux barking orders.

someone dead? or— he began to count his grandchildren and, just as simbelmyne had, found the number lacking.

seelie. who had taken her—and why?!

and dutch and katmai only just returned. . .

in a dazed fog, adi began to make his way to rodyn and the yearlings as instructed, but the steps felt difficult, as if his paws weighed a thousand pounds each. horror gripped his body in a vise; his chest ached, and—

oh, no, no, no, he muttered as his vision began to swim and darken, the world growing smaller and smaller around him. he sank to his knees, panting, trying to summon the strength to carry on, internally cursing himself:

damned if he'd die right now and make the already-fraught situation even more of a nightmare!