Unanswered Prayers
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The blind man could certainly move. He was already digging into the pile as she reached it, still trying to figure out what hope there was for the stranger-wolf, and whether he could be saved. She could see the inert form, right in amongst all the rubble the colour of his fur obscured by a thick skin of dust. From what she could see, most of the masonry had miraculously missed him, but inevitably one great slab had landed squarely across his midsection, halving him nicely. "Swentzle," she intoned in soft but dark tones, grim with the knowledge he could not save the wolf this time either. "I can see what you can't, that he is already dead." But the other wolf was so determined, using his hands to remove the stones, that Caspa found herself drawn to peer closer through the curtain of still-settling dust and realised that because of the groove the large stone lay upon, there was a few inches clearance. Perhaps enough to save the canine's life, though she would be amazed if he wasn't fatally injured with the amount of stonework that had fallen. A miracle - and if it wasn't for Swentzle, she wouldn't have even believed he could still be alive at all. The urgency of the situation denied her even a moment's consideration of this though. She said nothing to retract her previous statement, finding the situation too urgent she merely lunged forwards across the stones to shovel her hands beneath each side of the block and tense her slender shoulders, lean muscles knotting in her arms as she heaved at it.

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