Tomorr was barely able to move his head out of the way.  "Look!  Your friend here will be fine.  But take my word.  If you don't go find her now you're going to regret it.  Nathia's a great fighter.  Merciless, too," he attempted to say in a level tone.  He didn't want to sell out his fellow packmate, but this wolf wasn't going to just let another of his kind die.  He wanted everyone to get out of this alive... but that was already unachievable.  Since Aketa was already dead...

And so was Ridessa.

While Tomorr was busy, Kiyiya had made quick work of the light gray she-wolf.  She was feisty, but had no true power to her.  With a well-placed bite to the neck, she was out like a light after a lot of fighting.  Kiy had slashes on his shoulder that were dripping with blood, not to mention various other scratches and bite marks not from just Ridessa but also Vaynus who was much more skilled.  Vaynus was not happy in the slightest when his packmate stopped moving.  Kiy braced himself for more combat, panting, strength nearly depleted.  Two versus one was not only unfriendly, it was also brutal.

Sierra's mind was racing.  She kept imagining thoughts of the battle, different things that could happen and different outcomes.  But for some reason...  She cared about Coheed more than Kiy.  It wasn't the fact that Kiyiya was, well, a loner in his nature, because both of them were strangers to her and started out on the same field so to speak.  Aketa?  He was a stranger, too, apart from a few times they'd had run-ins with each other.  And he was dead so there was nothing to think about, battle-wise, concerning him.  So this whole 'Coheed you ok?' thing her mind kept going back to was... weird.  Perhaps there was something she knew but wasn't exactly coming up right now, to the front of her mind, where she could see it.  Like how one's subconscious knows things that one's conscious mind has yet to find out.  Hopefully it'd click in place soon enough 'cause this was stressing her out.  Add that to the fight going on and -boom-, you've got Sierra pulling her fur out.

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Tomorr watched as Coheed ran, knowing that he finally realized what he was trying to say.  Hopefully it wasn't too late.  Hopefully Nathia's taking her sweet time.  Hopefully everyone will be ok.  Even Nathia, because she's still a living, breathing wolf who's still a part of his pack and who still deserves to live just as much as everyone else.  Tomorr wasn't planning on fighting though.  He had fought against Coheed a bit, but it was more like fighting for his attention, for his listening ears.  He'd won, and Tomorr willed that he won at the right time, but at the moment he was just sitting back in the bushes watching Kiyiya and Vaynus try to kill each other.  He had no intention to break it up nor to add himself to the battle, rather to see everything play out.  They were from rival packs and Kiy had already killed Vay's pack member.  Both were injured, but Kiyiya was more battered than his opponent, though he wasn't letting up.  Both were skilled fighters and it seemed like this fight would go on for quite awhile until one of them finally won or this whole trial was over.  What was the terms for a trial ending anyway?  Tomorr forgot if his Alpha had even mentioned that bit of information.

Sierra began to tremble in her place, eyes getting wide as she heard an unfamiliar and threatening voice of a she-wolf.  She was frozen in place, sitting in the far end of the cavern and watching the entrance with a terrified ex
pression.  What the wolf said was true - she was trapped.  If that wolf came in here, she would kill her, even easier than she would if she came out.  And since she didn't know the wolf and the only other beings that were in the arena were the Gangvar wolves meant she was out to get rid of her.  Crap.  But why come out this way?  Wasn't the fight the other way?  Sierra wanted to ask why she was here, but she didn't know if that'd give her away even more.  Then again, the wolf already knew where she was...  Wait.  Did she say 'like your friend'?  Oh my gosh.  Things clicked and Sierra realized this wolf also killed Aketa.  She knew what the other was capable of...  That would be her if she didn't find a way out.  She couldn't run for long, so running wasn't an option.  She couldn't fight very well, her attacks could be well-thought out but they'd be rather weak and lacking the strength to back them up, so no big damage would be inflicted but a bruise or something.  If even that.

She slowly started to walk forward, one paw touching the spot right in front of her very tentatively....  And then as it was laid down she heard a crumbling sound behind her.  Sierra quickly retracted her paw and was even more frozen than before.  If she could die quickly, it'd be better than a slow and drawn out death.  She was about to choose that option but now these ominous sounds were scaring her.  Petrified, she thought it might've just been her imagination and tried again, putting more pressure on the pawstep and taking another step as well.

Then the crumbling sounds escalated and Sierra fell through the floor with a loud shriek of terror.

Sierra was airborne for a few seconds, falling, and then she fell on her side with a thud and an "Oof!"  The wind had gotten knocked out of her and she was frantically trying to breathe.  She sat upright, but the air would only go out and not in.  Her mind was panicking, but this had happened once before.  Getting the breath knocked out her, not falling through the floor in a cavern, I mean.  She was crying by now, but the fall wasn't what made her cry, it was just the sheer panic that overtook her.  Eventually she gasped in giant lungfuls of air, the fright subsiding.  She let a few more tears fall but then she shook them off of her fur.  Standing up, she knew she'd have some bruises underneath her white fur, but it was nothing serious.  The hole was about three lengths of her deep, which was pretty bad.  Looking around in the pitch black, the only light that came was very little from the entrance.  She heard a snarl.  Sierra knew it wasn't female, though.   It was.. Coheed!  He was here!

But wait, what about Kiy?  What about the battle?  Was it over?  It couldn't have gone by that fast.  Or maybe she just wasn't a good judge of time.  Slowly padding around in a circle, she used her paws to feel in front of her.  She was using her whole body, actually, to make sense of everything.  Her eyes had adjusted to the dark a little, but not enough for her to make out anything.  Eventually she found... a tunnel.  She was curious and ventured inside to meet another fork in tunnels.  Whoa, this was so cool!  There must be a network of tunnels in this cliffside.  Sierra definitely found this very interesting.

Sierra faintly heard yelling from behind her, but she waved it off as a fight.  She didn't expect anyone to go in after her.  Maybe they even thought she was dead.  Plus, she was stuck here until she got out, so death could definitely become a reality.  She squeezed out into a huge rocky clearing with lots of tunnels and had an intake of breath that indicated her wonderment as she found that out.  She went inside one of the tunnels only to find out that it was short and lead out to an underground cave.  Many of the other tunnels were similar, but the others lead to more areas of the cliff.  Sierra was having a blast exploring this place.