forever hunted - open; death

[RHINESTONE.]

RHINESTONESTAR ❝ RHINE ❞ LEGATE
"TALKING" || "TELEPATHY"

Death. It was a cruel and unpredictable thing, and Rhinestone knew that well. After all, the reaper had come for him once before, as well as many of his friends, and family. He tried his best to believe that life had mercy, considering that it had brought him back, just as it had brought Medusa back before. However, with everything that was happening recently... he wasn't so sure that was true, anymore. He didn't know what kind of beast had managed to get to Sorbet, but he did have to wonder if it was anything like what had happened to him. Had the same wolf that had gotten to him managed to get to Sorbet? Of course, unbeknownst to the young legate, the beast that had attacked Sorbet was nothing like anything Rhine had seen before. He had seen towering dinosaurs and rather unique hybrids of creatures, but this thing... it would've made him shiver right down to his core if he had seen it himself. As it was, however, Rhine had no kind of image in his mind for what could've taken Sorbet down. Instead, the entirety of his focus was on what they were going to do. They had to... there had to be some way to get him back, right? Just as he had come back. Just as Medusa had...

His mind was a blur of different thoughts as he went rushing up to the edge of the shore, water brushing lightly against his paws as he stared outwards. His darkly colored eyes simply... stared outwards, shocked and frozen in place. In the back of his mind, the serval was vaguely aware of the fact that Medusa was screaming, as was Quasar. He winced at the frantic tone of Quasar's voice, his own tone weak as he spoke to his son, "Q... Quasar. I don't think that you can help, with this one. I wish you could, but..." His heart was aching as he took another step forward, pressing one of his front paws beneath the waves. As he did so, he summoned up his air elementals, trying to use the wind to push back the water with all of his strength. He had already begun to feel slightly dizzy, but he pushed through, shoving the water back with all of his might and forming a sort of "wall" so that he could see beneath. Unfortunately, he could see nothing but shells and the faintest splashes of blood against sand, with no sign of Sorbet in sight. He let out a wheezing gasp of pain as nothing came into sight, releasing his elementals and letting the sea settle back into place.

Feeling thoroughly exhausted after the use of his elementals, Rhine fell back onto his haunches, a groan leaving his throat. He pressed a paw to his head, muttering softly to both Quasar and Medusa, "I thought... I thought maybe I could find him. Bring him back..." He felt like such a fool, with tears beginning to sting his eyes as he turned to Medusa. Her emotions were boiling over, just as they all were. He had to do something, even if he couldn't bring Sorbet right back to her, as he had hoped. He took a long step forward, pressing his head lightly against her shoulder in a gesture of comfort. He said softly, his voice so low it nearly couldn't be heard above the sound of the waves striking against the shore, "I'm sorry... I'm so sorry... I should've been able to do something. I don't know what... I don't know how this happened." He wanted to scream, but he couldn't – at least, not right now. If he fell apart alongside them, then who would be the shoulder for the both of them to lean on?

tags + roleplayed by stilly + the palm glades