Ashes, ashes, we all fall down

She had kept such an alert eye for danger around her, that she momentarily forgot to watch the danger underfoot. With a sick squelch the mud engulfed her paws, sliding up between her toes in a most unappealing way, making her recoil in disgust. Three of her paws had made it into the muck, sinking until they were covered in the mud about midway up her legs. Only her left hind leg had been left free, though that quickly came to an end when she slipped further into the muck and was forced to put her free leg down into the thickness of it. With a huff at her luck, the red woman fought to free her forelimbs, but the mire had suctioned around her and she couldn't pull herself free. Great, just great... She thought to herself, eyes of fire and ice moving around the rim of the sinking mud hole for anything she could grasp and pull herself free with, but there was nothing. Each attempt to move saw the mud creep up a bit more until it nearly touched the hairs on her stomach. Jaidah refused to panic and froze in place, relaxing almost into the deadly embrace of the mire. "Well, crap." She said, sighing softly. Jaidah knew all was not lost, but she couldn't help to think it so.

While she was only a few scant inches from the edge of the mud hole, Jaidah couldn't free any of her limbs to escape, and so she had decided to wait. It was smarter than howling out her distress and bringing gods knew what down on her, she would rather avoid being prey in such a delicate position. Her creamy masked face turned this way and that, mismatched eyes keen for any motion that would tell her someone was near. It was then she saw the soft flicker of white in the reeds next to a tree, along with grey and black. At first, she thought it only a shadow or a skunk, but the movement was distinctly wolf-like in nature. "Hey! Hey! I see you by that tree!" She called to the wolf, in case they were the type to take advantage of another in distress, she wouldn't be snuck up on today! Her stomach growled and she rolled those yellow and blue eyes, of course, she would be getting hungrier by the second. Jaidah smirked and thought of a way to bribe the other into helping her if such a thing could be achieved.