Have Fun, They Said. It's Easy, They Said.

Kal was in a bad spot, that much was easy to figure out.  Really, he was probably dead.  The bear was angry at him and Kal was more than happy to flee but he couldn’t breathe well enough to run like the bear wanted.  Kalyke tried tilting his head to bite at the vines but it just made the vine dig into his neck deeper.  Yup, life was good but it would be short.  

The pup stopped trying to flee when his hero arrived!  Sort of hero arrived?  Looking at the wolf that came he quickly realized that the wolf was blind.  Just great.  The young pup’s mind rolled through options between leaving and helping and figured the only reason he wasn’t laughing was the vine warning him it’d take more air than his body wanted to give.  The whole situation was ridiculous.

Then Kore showed up and was yelling which was another sign of problems but at least he came up with some good ideas.  No doubt the stranger had heard them.  She surely had already saved his life by just getting the bear’s attention on her instead of a kid, whether or not she’d realized that.  Kal decided to follow his sibling’s advice and headed towards Onyx.

The bear had been focused on the threat of the adult wolf but even a cub could tell the adult was blind and there were two pups that would be an easy grab.  With one heading towards the adult and Kore interested in grabbing its attention, the bear was more than happy to go get the baiting wolf pup.

“Hey, Hey!” Kal’s choked voice had a note of urgency, “Lady,  the bear’s turnin away from ya but goin towards my brother! This wasn't how his first bear encounter should go.  Not that there was likely a guidebook out there but this was ridiculous. “It’s uh, uh,” Kal was gonna say how many strides away but that was his strides versus her strides.  “You’ll run straight up his butt again if you run straight.” Kal kept an eye on the bear and his brother with some concern.  Kore definitely had better balance than Kal. “How can we help? I can’t really run right now.”  He could explain why and how he was being choked by a vine but there wasn’t really time at the moment.

WC 393
Total: 2395/3500

"Kalyke"