The Unraveling - It Spreads

The wolves arrive into the frozen cavern, confounded and amused. The ice looms around them, the air dry and chill. The rumbles wax and wane, seemingly coming from different directions. It circles, or is that just the echoes? The ice creaks, springy chimes sprouting quickly across somewhere in the inner ice.

Just as it seems things are calming down, the cave grows still, silent. Maybe it's safe. Maybe the wonders lie deeper within the cave.

Or maybe the wonders come to you.

From above, the ice shatters, blocks falling around the wolves. A large chunk scrapes past Hanako's left back leg, leaving a nasty gash. The other clumps narrowly miss the wolves or are able to dodge out of the way. From the icy mists, a monstrous worm emerges.

Shard like legs scratch and claw at the roof, keeping the worm from falling from the ceiling. It hangs, four triangular shaped sheets flare out, nearly blending in with the ceiling above. Slowly, a cross-shaped maw parts, hundreds of tiny teeth peering out between, hungry and ready. The worm waits.