Empire of Sound || Development and Encounter pt 1

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don't be so distant,

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code by spacexual

Unluckily for Sam and the members of the bandits out lounging as the storm slid into harbor, they were in plain view of the wolf as she came down the stairs to the wooden pathway. As soon as the bandits heard the rocks beginning to slide and the storm truely slamming into the coast, they scrambled for protection like any sane being. Unknowing to them that what they considered safe would soon be their own demise, bandits sprinted into the cliffside houses,  a formidable number slipping into shadows. As rain and wind clawed the cliffside, old structures and mud gave away, revealing gaping maws of dark and deep holes within the cliffside, where once mostly whole houses rested were now torn wounds in the cliffside. As the storm raged, a maned wolf would emerge from the closest house, a boulder fallen against its door. She was the Queen of the bandits, the one woman mentioned at the August meeting, Avanti. She had looked after the Kingpin's own son, not knowing him to be theirs and not a lost child. Barking out orders, the maned wolf bristled and howled a command, "BANDITS! ESCAPE UP THE CLIFF AND WATCH YOUR FOOTING - THE CLIFF IS FALLING APART!" before she leapt to help her group mates, the woman dragging those falling behind after her, not seeing Sam as she urged her members towards her, not knowing her own folly, the rain draining the scent of the femme before it could reach her sharp nose. Her only concern was rescuing her trapped bandits and getting them to safety, as wholly as she could, only praying that the group hadn't come out to investigate.

so distant from me