Planet Hell [Volcano] [Emergency Pack Meeting]

He’d been sorting through herbs, tossing out ones that had spoiled and rearranging the stores. He was glad to have escaped his cough with none catching it. He would be approaching Viviane soon, to ask if she would care to become his apprentice in healing. The offer was open to Geoffrey as well.

His musings on future lessons were interrupted by a sudden jolt. He was too far to have heard the explosion of the eruption, but his instincts squirmed fretfully in his gut even as he dashed from the cave system, hearing a scuff of paws behind him that said Regulus had felt it too.

Aurielle’s distant, urgent howl reached both sets of ears and both men were racing flat out, Paladin a full length ahead of the old crimson male. It took them longer to arrive at the Circle. Paladin skidded to a stop as he spotted the glow in the distance, then glanced over the rest of the pack, noting who had arrived and who had yet to do so before he chose a spot beside Justice, Regulus slipping to a place near Aurielle.