The Unraveling - It Spreads

The quakes up in the northern lands have continued and Wade is too curious a wolf to leave this opportunity to go and explore unanswered. Even as the ground trembles, shakes and causes the ice underneath his fat paws to groan under the strain, the red boy trots unperturbed across the frozen field. It isn’t until a sound, like a massive crack of thunder, fills the air that his pawsteps even falter. ‘The fuck was that?’ Loki questions in his mind and the teenager scoffs aloud while replying in his mind, ‘Ya think I know that?’. A snicker rebounds in the rooms of thoughts and he knows Sly is laughing at him.

As the most recent, violent shake subsides, Wade shakes out his coat and trots onward, without a care in the world. On the horizon, he spies other wolves, congregating in specific area before disappearing from view. Eyes widen in surprise and, not wanting to be left out of whatever secret they had found, the red wolf picks up speed and seeks to find the mystery before him. Skidding to a dramatic halt near the yawning opening that had been torn into the icy floor, he breathes out a, “Whoa” while his pale gaze takes in every inch of the exposed cave.

Shards of ice litter the floor and light fills the space yet, in spite of the beauty that has been revealed, a deep sense of foreboding roots itself into his gut. As the creaking sounds of ice greet his ears from the depths of the cavern, the boy stands at the opening… and hesitates. Because, underneath the soft groans of ice is the sound of something… else. ‘Well, now we have to explore.’ Sly drawls, poking at Wade to get a move on as he sits in the back of his mind.

Straightening his shoulders, lifting his head in a proud manner, Wade moves into the cave, hyper-alert to every small sound and smell that comes from further ahead. As the light begins to fade the sound of something moving turns that foreboding feeling into a sense of doom… just as a flash of color catches his attention in his peripheral vision. Rooting himself in place and turning his attention to the area around him, Wade calls out, “Uh… anyone home?”.


"Wade Praetor" 'Thinking' | 'Sly' | 'Loki'