Snowstorm
Every afternoon you witnessed in this magical place, the snow started to fall until way after sunset, covering the surroundings in a thick white blanket. But this time is different. This time the snowfall becomes more dense with every passing minute. And the wind gets stronger too, until you feel a full grown storm howling through the forest. Your sight, although normally pretty much perfect, starts to worsen with thick snowflakes covering your face and eyes. You brush them away, but a few seconds later again you are covered in snow.
Shelter, you need a shelter to hide from the storm. Up until now, you just slept wherever you could find a comfy place to lay down your massive body, but this time you would probably suffocate or maybe even freeze to death if you would try something like that tonight.
So you try to find your way through the storm. The wind blows over your body, every few moments switching the direction, so you can't really brace yourself from the impact of the next gust pushing you from a different side. It becomes harder and harder to walk over the branches, so you decide to take the more difficult but safer route through the thick snow below. Carefully you climb down and jump into the undergrowth. But to your surprise, the thick snowfall made the blanket even thicker than you expected, so you dive in and are up to your chest covered in the cold white powder.
Growling a bit, you shake your body, but to now avail. The snow is just friggin' everywhere. You're quite thankful that you're not hungry right now since you hunted a few hours ago. But then again if you have to walk too far to find a proper shelter, you might just expend too much energy and have to go to sleep hungry. It gets really hard to keep your thought positive while the storm tries to smother you with snow...
Slowly but surely you push yourself forward. It gets harder with every minute the storm rages on, but you can't just give up. Your fur starts to freeze up as the snow close to you melts under the heat of your body, then freezes again as it is covered with more fresh and cold snow, so you start to feel the additional weight of the ice covering your fur, slowing you down even further.
Written by Lifeguard Arran on 20 June 2018