She had been hunting, trying her best to wrangle something up to bring home. Thought surprisingly the prey seemed to be absent tonight. It was worrisome that she could barely find any sign of life other then the trails of her packmates. Being that the floor of the canyon was unsuccessful and began to climb, searching the large and small paths along the canyons walls for something. It worried her even more that she couldn’t find anything thier either. Something was off and she couldn’t quite figure out what it was. Continuing to move and cover ground she began to head in the direction of Razi way before her call was placed and by the time the call was made she was close enough to get there in a timely matter. Although she was a lot lower on the canyon wall then where Razi had been. She had managed to climb up further before the loud crack practically made her jump out of her skin. She could barely see where it had hit, but that god awful sound. She tried to hurry her pace, but it was no good. A large wave of sea water crashed into her taking her off her feet and away in the water. She struggled within the swirling water to get to the surface, down and up down and up was the motion of the water. Her eyes burned from the salt water so she forced them closed.

Unable to see what was happening, but with some struck of luck the water piled into one of the canyon bends smacking her into the wall and allowing her to land on one of the larger paths the pack used. She gasped, coughing and hacking, spitting and sputtering before attempting to open her eyes. She had been swept quite a distance from the meeting place. Then a wall of water crashed into her again, smacking her against the side of the canyon and sweeping her back under water.

This time the water was a lot more violent with her, smacking her into things left and right. Within minutes she was knocked unconscious and left for the water to have full control of her form. Though now she didn’t know a thing of what was going on and had no chance to even attempt to save herself. Was this her day to die? Was this why she felt led to come to Ash’s pack to just die?

It seemed something else was planned for her, whatever gods had control over this mess of the world again shot her another break. Whipping through another bend in the canyon and was once more flung into the side of the canyon. She was much closer to the surface this time as the water whipped sharply to the left tossing her onto another ledge on the same side of the canyon that the meeting was being held. She was flung higher this time, higher then the water itself and her lifeless form laid there, she was knocked out but still alive... for now.

Everything had happened so suddenly. One moment he'd been napping, enjoying the dreary day, and then suddenly the rain had began. Once he'd heard Razi's called he had moved to join the group near the top of the canyon, and though he'd almost made it to the top, once the wall of water had broken and begun to flood the canyon he'd been distracted by something else. Zinnia had been swept up by the waves and knocked unconscious, and he'd made a split decision to save her. There was no need for a loyal follower of the Abraxas family to die needlessly - though he'd chose family over her, if it really came down to it, he was lucky that he didn't have to make that choice right then. No, he felt like this was a sign from the gods, urging him to prove himself.

And prove himself he would, carefully navigated down the tricky rock slopes of the canyon to reach her side on the ledge she'd landed on. He had no idea why, or how, the flood had began - he only knew he had to make it out in one piece, hopefully with Zinnia alive and well. It was hard to tell if she'd sustained any injuries; her frame was soaked and as limp as could be, he noticed, as he wrapped his jaws around her scruff and started to drag her into the higher reaches of the canyon. He was significantly larger than her, which made the job doable - if he was much smaller he wasn't sure he'd be able to pull her at all - but dead weight was still no easy task to carry, and it took most of his strength to carry her to the top of the canyon.

By the time he reached what he could consider safety, he was panting heavily from exhaustion. The rain still pelted the earth, nearly blinding him completely. He released his hold on Zinnia for a moment, letting her unconscious form slump to the ground. There was no sign of the group that he'd seen earlier - visibility was poor enough as it was, and he had no way to really find them. Taking a bit to catch his breath, he devised a plan. The rushing of water over the side of the canyon said that these lands were uninhabitable, so staying would be foolish. Heading to this Empire's counterpart further west sounded like a better option... albeit not a terribly easy one. With a grunt he finally moved to lift Zinnia back up between his jaws to drag her after him. Who knew how long it'd take him to get there, and surely Zinnia would be battered and bruised by the time they reached Eclipse Empire - both from being smashed against the canyon walls as well as dragged by him - but he had no better options, and at least she'd make it there alive.

-exit Typhon and Zinnia-

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