Too frightened to even remember to scream, Seraphina stumbled away in terror. The heel of her foot caught against a stone buried in the snow and she fell to the ground with a pained yelp. Even through the fabric of her cloak, the freshly fallen snow was bitingly cold against her back. Nevertheless, she barely had a moment to process the chill as she scrambled away from the wolf as fast as she could. It bared down on her relentlessly, heavy paws making deep imprints in the snow and closing the distance between them in seconds. Seraphina's felt around her for something, anything to protect herself with, and her frozen fingers closed around something solid. Too afraid to take her eyes off the monster, even to glance at what she was holding, she threw the stone with all her strength. Not waiti
