4/19/2026, 5:11 PM
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
3-3-3 OC
3-3-3 OC
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Bao’s head swam as the name Jakten drifted through her mind, failing to catch on any familiar memories. It sounded solid. It sounded like a place that hadn't been hollowed out by violence, little did she know.
She watched the way Nyra moved—not with the predatory hunger Bao was used to, but with a terrifying, quiet grace. The word "leader" registered, and Bao’s instincts forced a jagged, instinctive flick of her ears. Even broken and bleeding, the hierarchy was something she understood.
Bao looked down at her own paws, stained with the blood of her own wounds, and then at the clean, white fur of the Sovereign. The contrast was a physical weight. Bao’s muscles spasmed as she tried to shift her weight. The lacerations on her ribs sang with a high, white heat.
I... I can move,she lied, her voice cracking like dry timber.
I've walked through worse. Just... give me a second.
Bao’s front legs buckled slightly, and she let out a sharp, hissed breath through her teeth, her head hanging low between her shoulders. The adrenaline was wearing thin, leaving only the cold, hard reality of her injuries.
Bao,she managed to grate out, her pale eyes lifting to meet Nyra’s. There was a flickering desperation there, like a victim realizing the battle was over but not knowing how to exist in the quiet. Bao’s gaze drifted from the towering peaks of the mountain back to the ivory wolf standing so close. The silence of the forest was heavy, broken only by the frantic, rhythmic heartbeat thumping against her own ribs.
I can...attempt to climb, If the path is not too bad..
Despite the crushing weight of her exhaustion, a flicker of old, stubborn instinct sparked in her chest. She couldn't stay in the dirt—not in front of a Sovereign. With a guttural, pained grunt, Bao forced her weight onto her front paws. Her muscles didn't just tremble; they buckled, her joints locking and unlocking in a desperate fight against gravity.
She rose, but it was a violent, unstable ascent. Her hind legs shook so fiercely they seemed to vibrate against the earth, and her entire frame leaned precariously to one side to spare her shredded ribs. She was a hollowed-out monument to a fight that shouldn't have happened, swaying in the wind like a sapling in a storm.
Bao’s vision clouded, the ivory form of Nyra doubling and blurring as the wolf fought to keep her head high. Her breath came in shallow, jagged hitches, her muzzle dripping a fresh bead of crimson into the dust, yet she remained upright—brittle, broken, and held together by nothing but the sheer refusal to fall.
