The Unraveling - It Burns

Pain. White, searing, hot pain erupted over her face. Blinding light lances across her eye, momentarily blinding it as she scrambles backward. Away, up the crater, as fast as she could. Away from the monstrous beast that throws the dead wolf away and singing so many others.

Barely making it back over the edge of the crater, Calliope can barely breathe. Her throat is tightening, dry and raspy as her lungs fight to inflate. Fear that she will lose her sight begins to overwhelm her. What was happening? There's commotion off to the side. She had to turn her whole head to see. Through the blur of molten debris and burnt hair, Calliope watches her sister and others attempt to knock a large boulder in toward the worm.

She couldn't not help. But the pain. Her paw is reaching up, attempting to swipe away the hardened lava that is now encrusted onto her face. The adrenaline is slowly numbing her. Her mind clearing, sense coming back. As her heart steadies, she knows she can't give up. Even if her only goal is to save herself, she doesn't care. The worm must die.

Charging over, through the crowd, Calliope moves up beside Siduri. Flashing her sister a wicked, malformed grin, she begins to help. Lifting up her front paws, together they smash and pound against the heavy boulder to roll it into the crater and toward the fiery worm.

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