A streak of red landed on the cracked earth.<br/><br/>Gabe looked up from the floor, brow pinching in the middle, copper eyes shining like freshly minted pennies for nerves. The smell of blood hung in the air thick as water, sticking in the back of his throat and tongue, sickly sweet and metallic, the fear adding a newer edge, a sharp tang to it that burnt in his veins like they'd piped him full of gasoline.<br/><br/>Terra.... Gabe could hardly have believed it if it weren't for the wolf shaped void left in the pack.<br/><br/>He looked up at Kiki, silently questioningly, ears so low they threatened to fall straight through his head. She always knew what was going on-- or at least seemed to-- some kind of psychic/mind-reading/womans intuition vibe going on there.<br/><br/>No sooner had he than the Alpha turned on him. A low, awkward rumble of a noise rattled up from the back of his throat like so much broken water piping, "Shouldn't we..." he nodded his snout towards where the raggedy wolf had loped off, belly still against the floor.