Noctisardor Bypass [raid] going deeper underground

fading! <3

the blows that came next were harsh and unrelenting. the boy grabbed his leg and mahler felt surely that it would break. he swung his heavy teeth downward — the maddened, eldritch howl spun through his forest and his consciousness — and savaged the leftmost side of his opponent's face, searing through cheek and ear alike.
the wolfess was upon mahler again, and this time her fangs cut him terribly along the barrel of his chest and after her retreat there flowed a gobbet of blood.
ursus was departing.
adrenaline pushed him after them.
pragmatism brought him back.
mahler managed six steps in the snow before he collapsed, body aligned toward the forest where laurel had gone. he went insensate, mind blackening as winter poured snow over rivenwood, slowly filling every part of the churned snow.