Bearclaw Valley ghost of a monster child

this will be an M for violence rated pack meeting, therefore it is optional, though attendance is strongly encouraged. @Astara @Revui @Ico @Orson @Toad @Skoll Almir @Aventus @Avicus

exempt: @Evien @Rosina @Ikkalrok @Glaucos @Astyanax (feel free to make cameos and/or join if able, exempt due to doctoring, wounds, & babies)

special mention: @Jaylen

somewhere between the rain and the lightning that had forked, merrick understood the drumbeat of the bear's words in his heart.
the pale witch lay recovering from easthollow's punishment. merrick could have almost forgiven their defense, given the mauling of their dipshit prince, but they had ignored him, turned aside his parley.
and now ursus wept with new blood.
somewhere in the storm, merrick had come upon a rawboned starveling, robbing a far cache of meat gone high with rot. there was no mercy in the devil; he drove the hapless creature toward the field of blue flowers, and there he savagely beat the interloper.
when only struggling, feathered breath remained in the bloodstained flanks, merrick lifted his dripping muzzle into the misted rain and sang a great and terrible dirge for ursus to assemble amid the now-reddened blossoms.
behind him, the downed wolf parted its jaws to beg.