SEBASTIAN'S POVThat velvet voice paralyzed my limbs with dread authority, though I railed against its hold. The colossus turned burning pits where eyes should be, fixing their magnetism upon my fighting comrades. We were doomed - yet the pup nestled safe in my jaws, its fate bound with my survival. With a final howl of anguish, I turned from the fray, plunging into the raging waters.Currents seized us in iron claws, pummeling our joined shapes through rapids grown wilful and wrathful. Over fog-shrouded falls we tumbled, the world a blur of roiling white. All seemed lost to the flooding deeps until our battered forms washed ashore miles hence, dusk closing in upon an unknown strand. Gently I crawled from the surf, collapsing amid reeds that hid our landing from any watching eyes. The pup stirred feebly, shivering in my embrace though its flame yet kindled bright. "Have courage, little one," I soothed in a rasp. "Your charge is safe, for now." How long we lay as night fell complet
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