After a While, Crocodile!

It had been a minute since she'd been here, but she was looking to expand the pack so she came around to check it out again to make sure this was where she wanted to expand to. The heat was almost unbearable, and so when she arrived, she went straight for the willows that provided the shade she so desperately sought out today. This season was unbearably hot compared to last season, and it was really putting alot of stress on some of their resources. Rue's garden especially. They needed more access to water and resources, and so her gaze fell toward the pond that sat among the willows, its surface eerily still as she studied it. There was hardly any movement on its surface. Stagnant even. She saw a few bugs skating across the surface. A stream of bubbles here and there. She even spotted what she presumed to be a log near one end. When did that get there!? Was it so hot and dry that one of the willows fell over or something? Weird.

Deciding she needed a drink, The Wraith approached the still water and leaned down to take a drink. Of course, she didn't notice the movement of the bubbles nor the way the log slowly moved closer. And it wasn't until there was a thunderous crash from the waters surface right in front of her that all of her instinctive alarm bells went off, and next thing she knew, a huge set of teeth was coming right for her! She scrambled back in surprise, but not fast enough before those jaws grabbed her left paw. She cried out in pain at the force and strength of the bite, and she was face to face with a crocodile. A shadow blur leapt in as Umbra launched herself on the Crocodile's back, claws and teeth going for its back in an effort to force it to release Medusa. Luckily, the tactic worked, and she was able to free herself. With a heavily bleeding and likely broken paw, Medusa scrambled back beneath the tree, a panicked call for help for Insomnia sounding in the air.

"Speech"