the storm passes

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R.I.P Nimueh 1.0, your time with VFW was good and i wasted a lot of your young youth </3

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Her narcolepsy had always held an air of danger, especially with how easily it was forgotten once it was done and how reckless the young wolf was in her traipsing across the earth. Today it had proven to be the day it became fatal. It had been painless once she had fallen mid-stride, mid-climb, succumbing to the sudden sleep as her body dropped. Nimueh's body crashed against the rocks, ricocheting from ledge to ledge as she descended.

Descended until her body hit the ground with one last THUD! 

Nimueh's mouth was open, blood pooling from her lips and similar lacerations across her speckled body. Mangled from broken bones and force, the nature-wolf lay, too young to have been there in the first place but life was cruel and she was no exception. ^^

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There was a thud in the distance, something sickening that had the guardian raise her head and frow.. Then the short sound of shrieking in the distance, that had the warrior bound through what little distance there was, and see the scene before her. The Empress of Shiroshika by the feet of one of Vanderfells, and Orlaith's face crossed as she approached, sniffing cautiously to nothing but.. Lifelessness.

She didn't know Nimueh that well, but it was always heartbreaking for when someone young had fallen. There was a silence, a knowing, and an awaiting — for a funeral was to be waited. Crest-fallen her ears fell, regret that she didn't forge a bond enough to truly mourn a friendship, as the former was.. A stranger, but nonetheless, one of them.

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Residing with her children higher along the summit, Ira had not heard the initial commotion as one of her own tumbled down the mountain. It wouldn't be until Reiko's summoning cry that she moved with urgency. She'd ensure @Petra @Andor and @Olivier stayed put by moving the large branch @Hieronymous had salvaged in front of the den mouth to act as a baby gate before retreating from the location. They were old enough to ignore her parental demands and she would take no chances with an unknown situation on her hands.

She would smell the blood before coming along the scene. Nimueh lay broken, her limbs sprawled in unnatural ways as blood stained the earth beneath her. Ira would slow her steps as she advanced having no need to check the body. Reiko wouldn't be standing still if there was something she could do and it wouldn't take a medic to pronounce her dead. A frown tugged her lips, though at the very least she smelled no scents other than her own and Shiroshika. What happened was tragic, but it had not been a murder.

“Orlaith, go to the Run and prepare a grave.” There was no use waiting. They would need to take care of the body before scavengers came and preferably before the scene attracted any of the Drang. They were old enough to witness death of course, but it was gruesome all the same and perhaps humiliating to the one who had fallen. Nimueh would rest amongst the bodies of Vanderfell. Ira's gaze would scan up the rocky slopes taking note of broken branches and glistening splatters on the darkened rock. “Thank you for calling.”

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Orlaith nodded at the High Queen, and would be swift to her command. A shame to lose one so young, perhaps she would offer some honey upon her grave ; but in the meanwhile in due haste would the warrior be sent to the graveyard. An appropriate grave to be dug for a fallen packmate.

short, sweet, skippable

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“No need to concern yourself further, you have done enough. Vanderfell will handle the rest and see to it her spirit rests.” She may not have been one of their honored, but she was Vanderfell all the same. Nimueh would receive a proper burial befitting of her time alive. “I am sure you and yours have more pressing matters to attend to than those who no longer walk among us. If Quicksilver feels it is his place to partake in her departure, then he may find her amongst our graves in Ullarcraig.” Without more to say, she would offer a dip of her head before moving to retrieve the body and follow Orlaith's trail.

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can wrap up here

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