Dragoncrest Cliffs Blackpine

A wind had thrown the surface of the sea in to disarray, frothing the edges in to white clouds of seafoam which slammed against rocks and sent debris further and further up the limited beach space of the cliffside.

Among the narrowed sections of rock and sand, as the sea retreated one of many times, it left a deposit of wet and naked lumber netted with weeds, blackened by scorch marks. This rested where it was wedged.

Beneath this, against scatterings of pulverized shell and wet bands of dirt, sank a tired body. Fur along this body was singed down the spine; a section of the burned tree had one hind leg and part of the lower back of the wolf pinned hard against stone.

The wolf lay mindlessly there as the ocean retreated, stinking of illness, sea brine, and fire.