Elaine felt cold not on an elemental level, but the chill one got the moment their instinct flared from danger.
Her back was bare, no shield, no defence, open to an attack from whatever had pounced…
A low growl rumbled through her ears, her essence was on the verge of rerouting, as she recalculated her next moves but deep down she knew she stood no chance.
She was leaving this exchange with either a life-threatening injury, or worse, dead…
Thick, sharp claws dug into her pristine, pale white skin, the mighty paws of the dark feline dragging down and drawing bloody, welling streaks, leaving a laceration so deep it showed the whites of her bones.
Fortunately for her the monster had limited intelligence and also treated the monster she rode beneath her as a threat, its other maw digging into the bronze bull, or now frozen bull's, side, the mighty maws of the feline parting as it snapped shut on the bull's head.
