Sk'elep

Islana - Woken from your delirious dream you find yourself in a predicament. You need to escape the sinking sand but everytime you move the further down you sink.

You are waist deep in the quicksands, when you try and use your powers to reach out to any nearby animals. You have no idea if this will work but you have very little choice.

The relentless sun keeps beating down on you and your fair complexion. Everywhere you look that is not covered, you see patches of angry red skin, as if you were literally being cooked alive.

You have experienced the sun in forests, farms, plains and even mountains, but nothing like this. This is unbearable. Looking up at the sky it feels as if the sun is touching the land. Touching you...

You continue to sink, past your stomach first as terror begins to grip you. Not long after you feel the void below the sands sucking you further down almost to your shoulders.

You close your eyes fighting back tears of frustration and rage. After everything that has happened in your life to slip away to oblivion seems almost wasteful.

A shadow falls across you shielding you for the first time in days from the beta and sun. You blink you eyes open and see a huge wold-like creative staring down at you.

The creature stands on four legs with yellowish-brown fur. It has large triangular ears on the top of its head and a long, narrow muzzle. It has a black nose; yellow eyes; and a long, bushy tail. It is much larger than any wold you have every seen. Almost the size of a small horse.

Its yellow eyes stare at you and it paws at the sand with its blunt claws.

A word flashes in your mind Sk'elep.

Jackal...