Noctisardor Bypass Nothing's gonna hurt you the way that words do.

A sound came from the water's edge. Indra was so focused on the sky that she almost did not hear it, and even so, it happened too late.

Her steps took her to the edge and her toes skirted across a thin sheet of ice that cracked, even under her diminutive weight. This she felt more than heard, and looked down sharply, to see the dark water and the wolf; this older girl who stared with one green eye (at a glance).

Startled as much by that as the smell of regurgitated meat, Indra staggered sideways — and down she went, as the ice gave way. Over the period of two frenzied seconds the little red girl was met with frigid water