Nova Peak And she's suddenly cruel

Lycabas blinked upward, squinting his left eye as the cheek below it throbbed.

Did a bird drop that rock on me?

He looked around in the sky, seeing nothing at first, before there was a loud crrrrrrack! He looked swiftly to the crumbling ledge, watching wide-eyed as a wolf struggled to stay aloft. Things happened too fast after that: shards of gravel and ice hurtled towards him as snow exploded from the ground where each solid object hit, including the body of the other wolf.

He was not a fast wolf and there was no time to dodge, so the boy simply braced himself, as he did for most things, taking the brunt of the hit as the rolling wolf collided into his side, bowling him over.

They skidded to a halt as the fall of rubble and snow petered out over them, the fallen wolf firmly pressed into his massive frame. His eyes, which had been shut tight on impact, now peeked open to look over the creature embedded against him. He recognized her, the girl from the rise, before he started to feel a bone-deep ache through the shock of this event.

Are you hurt? he managed to croak out.