[PQ] a single courageous step

The dire wolf snarls angrily as it is struck by fire and static, reeling back from its position above Jigano with an absolutely inhuman (and inlupine) shriek. Fury in its crimson eyes it withdraws, its body seeming to shift and change in deeply unsettling ways until it vanishes back into the thorns of the labyrinth with a final, furious growl. Jigano is fine. He has mastered healing, and it 'twas just a flesh wound. As for Freina? Well, I suppose we'll let her speak for herself.