The Unraveling - Going Deeper

With his back-right leg hiked, it takes some maneuvering to get his body between the worm and the pup and is grateful that he manages to scruff her. Lifting her form from the ground, he endures her abuse and claws and seeks to send her rolling back out of the way. Unfortunately, the other pup, a boy, slips past him and attacks the worm which pulls a snarl from Ezekiel. Looking to the pups he spits out, “Don’t get in our way.” Before abandoning them to their fates.

If they die here and their parents were to ask him what happened, Zeke would simply tell them he did everything he could to save them. Had he? No but also wasn’t going to waste more energy trying to wrangle the pair when a literal crystal worm is breathing down their necks. With that, he rounds on the worm and snarls, tail curling over his back as he does his three-legged run-hop toward the angry creature.

A small yearling asks for help with the ice shards while a quilled man tries to tell them all to be quiet and move to the edges and Zeke ignores them both. They are not Syndicate nor are they blood and he will not pay heed to them. Moving up to the worm, he spies a thick chunk of ice laying on the ground and angles toward, smacking it in the direction of the creature’s open maw. If it was hungry, it could eat rocks!


"Ezekiel Saxe"