Duskfire Glacier take a look around you and get a good whiff

you guys can skip Siku from here! He’s gonna be unconscious/just sorta out of it for the rest of the thread and I think he and Rye have already exited. Correct me if I’m wrong y’all. :)

He was still struggling, albeit more feebly than before, still flailing in his father’s grasp as Rye carried the wounded boy away from the scene of the crime. Both out of sheer terror and out of pain from the way his weight hung awkwardly on his injured shoulder. The small merle gagged and choked until he coughed the dirt out and then, he set to loosing out all the screams that had been smothered by the substrate. 

Much as a baby would continue to cry long after a traumatic incident, he screamed and sobbed at the top of his lungs until his father finally settled him upon a cool bed of damp leaves. Even then he squirmed in pain and screeched out his abused emotions until his voice had gone soft and squeaky.

At last, his sire’s attentive grooming seemed to reach him and he slowly wormed closer to Rye — as if to burrow into him the way he still did Imaq when he nursed. Still, it took some time before his hiccuping breaths and tiny whimpers died off into a fitful sleep against Atâtak’s pale underbelly.