Iridescent Lagoon who i am hates who i've been

He hadn't wanted to push this far into the Winter, but given the aggressive nature of the few wolves he'd run into since autumn, Levi had more or less been forced to keep going. Maybe there was a reason, he found himself musing. It had been so long since he had left his pack to follow after @Riven, it was truly unlikely now that he was going to find him at all. The last trace of the blonde had been months ago, and at this point the trailing teen was just guessing. And yet...

Levi looked upward as he walked through the snow, hoping unto the universe that it was pushing him toward his friend and not starvation.

Beneath him, the ground gurgled and cracked.

Leviticus froze, eyes widening as his brain struggled to place the sound. Was he... ? Green eyes searched the whites and grays of the snowy landscape, seeking definition that was muted by powder and ice. He couldn't tell if the slopes ahead were drifts or... a shoreline?

"... uh oh..."

all welcome! levi's wandered onto the lagoon and the ice is starting to give.

Something was shifting and... breaking beneath him and Leviticus' gut told him to run. Frozen only for a moment, he broke free from fear's paralysis and booked it toward the trees in front of him. If he could get to their gnarled roots, he knew he'd be on something stable and could then figure out what the heck was happening.

Behind him, the ice snapped and cracked, chasing his fleeing paws and nearly catching up. His paws touched wood and he scrambled to all but hug the tree's trunk for security. Panting, he cast his beryl gaze over the clearing he'd been walking through, and saw water flooding and submerging the ice he had been walking over.

That had been way too close...