Avalanche.
Boreal's mental warning came a breath behind Noah's but both were too late to help the courier. There was simply no time to react but he was a Halovian, born and bred, and as soon as the snow hit him he started swimming for the surface and as near as he could tell to sideways as he could manage in the confusion of tumbling snow and debris.
And then it just--
Stopped.
He was still swimming, but the snow was frozen around him and Tal didn't question his good luck. Pulling himself on top of the momentarily motionless white wave he booked it to the side and some deep-set boulders, which thankfully weren't too far away.
"I'm safe!" he called hoarsely - and quietly - upstream to Deimos and Noah, whichever one of them had momentarily halted the avalanche.
Tal tries to swim - and then scramble - to the side of the avalanche and the safety of some boulders off its path.
Boreal's mental warning came a breath behind Noah's but both were too late to help the courier. There was simply no time to react but he was a Halovian, born and bred, and as soon as the snow hit him he started swimming for the surface and as near as he could tell to sideways as he could manage in the confusion of tumbling snow and debris.
And then it just--
Stopped.
He was still swimming, but the snow was frozen around him and Tal didn't question his good luck. Pulling himself on top of the momentarily motionless white wave he booked it to the side and some deep-set boulders, which thankfully weren't too far away.
"I'm safe!" he called hoarsely - and quietly - upstream to Deimos and Noah, whichever one of them had momentarily halted the avalanche.
Tal tries to swim - and then scramble - to the side of the avalanche and the safety of some boulders off its path.
