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Megana begins to head back to help vi and dusty

Vi rushes towards Dusty, throwing her tendrils forward to shock anything close. Megana rushes back to help.

OOC: Turn order
Adam, Payton, Ant too far away
Wolves 13
Megana 10
Vi 8
Dusty 6

The wolves yank on all of Dusty's appendages, jerking him across the ground like he weighs nothing. His knife slips from his grip, spinning once before vanishing into the drift. He claws for it, fingertips brushing steel, but the pack drags him farther, boots carving trenches in the snow.

Three wolves peel off and charge Vi. They leap. The first hits her aura mid‑air and convulses violently. The second slams into her shoulder and rebounds with a shrieking yelp. The third, springing higher than she expects, snaps its jaws inches from her face before the electricity rips a scream out of it. All three hit the ground scrambling, tails tucked, fleeing in panic.

An arrow whistles in from the white. It ricochets off one of Vi’s crackling tendrils, spinning past her cheek close enough to stir her hair.

Across the river, Megana sprints back toward the chaos. She's nearly there as she spots two humanoid silhouettes standing on the opposite bank. The three wolves that fled suddenly freeze mid‑stride. Their heads turn, not toward Megana, not toward Vi, not toward Dusty. They stare at the figures across the river. Their tails tuck and fur bristles, as if whatever stands there is far more dangerous than anything already tearing through the snow.

"What in the nine hells"she looks towards where the wolves are looking to see what the wolves are looking at.

"What in the nine hells?" she looks towards where the wolves are staring. Two figures begin walking across the river towards them. One of them seems to be aiming a rifle in the general direction of the battle against the wolves.

Megana begin to concentrate trying to hear anything from either the wolves or these two stranger...

Megana begin to concentrate trying to hear anything from either the wolves or these two stranger... She catches the impression from one of the wolves of imminent and mortal danger.

Seeing the wolves run away but stop , vi keeps pushing towards dusty and looks back towards what the wolves are seeing . Then continues to head to dusty ," keep fighting old man . You got answers i want !!"

Seeing the wolves run away then stop, Vi keeps pushing towards Dusty, while looking back at two figures crossing the river. She turns back to Dusty, "Keep fighting, old man! You've got-" something interrupts her.

The world detonates as a blast of light and force erupts where Dusty was, flinging him through the air like a rag doll. Snow and debris whip outward in a rolling boom that slams into Megana, knocking her flat. Vi braces herself, tendrils crackling, watching the last eight wolves break instantly, tails down, sprinting for their lives.

Where Dusty had been fighting is now a smoking crater, a single ruined wolf at its center.

Two figures step into view through the haze across the river. One is a man in rugged bushman armor, rifle raised and steady, posture sharp and ready for another strike. Beside him stands someone smaller, almost kid‑sized, wrapped in strange gear and a gas mask that hides their face entirely.

Dusty groans somewhere behind them. He sits up, coughing out snow and brushing off whatever's stuck to him. “Been a while since I’ve seen a walker,” he mutters. Megana doesn’t hear a word, her ears ring with a piercing, electric whine from the blast, drowning everything else out.

Megana stares at the sky trying to regain her hearing and try to see whats going on

Megana stares at the sky trying to regain her hearing. It's still ringing but slowly dulling to a low tone as she, Vi and Dusty notice the kid slowly fade from view like a ghost, leaving only the man with the rifle.