Blizzard Hits!

Oz watches the dibbuns as they walk “Stay close to me alright"

Bastien nods and looks around, he has his little knapsack full of rice cakes and cookies, hey he is a hare.

Cera stays close to the badger and looks around as they walk.

Benick has a basket with him of some snacks and drinks, he follows close to them.

Luna hums to herself and picks up random leaves of red and orange and gold.

Cera giggles as she after a grasshopper and frowns as it heads off in another direction.

Snow starts to lightly fall as they walk, the badger frowns and looks skywards as the snow comes down, he looks to the dibbuns.

Luna sees the snow and giggles as she tries to catch some with her tongue.

Benick grins and waves his stick sword at the snow”Benick knights like snow!”

Oz looks at the snow and frowns, "Alright all. We need to start thinking of going heading back soon"

Bastien frowns, he grins "No inside...play more" he giggles and looks at the snow.

A couple dibbuns run in circles and chuckle as they play.

Oz sighs as they run around, a couple mice dibbuns run ahead of the group.

Benick and Luna both seem to want to race each other and giggle as they roll down a small little hill.

Oz frowns as the snow starts getting worse, he raises his voice “Now pay attention to me, stop Now it is time to head back” The wind blows and the snow gets worse.

The wind blows snow all over and makes it hard to see as the falling flakes are large and far from small right now and snow is quickly covering the ground and making it white all over.

Benick stops as does Luna as both say together "Sorry Papa Oz"

Oz nods and makes sure the other dibbuns stay close "Now all hold paws and follow me." The wind and snow get worse.

Cera whimpers as the snow and wind hit and gets scared and runs, she trips over a rock and tumbles down to the hill and on into a cold creek that’s got some swift moving water in it and eeps loudly.

Oz eyes go large as he barks an order “Everyone stay right here!” He then runs and dives into the water to get to Cera “Cera reach for me!”

Cera whimpers and cries and coughs water, she reaches for Oz... ”Helps...helps”

Oz manages to grab her and get out of the water, he is soaked to the fur and shivers, and he blinks as he sees a cave and smiles “Everyone inside now!” He counts as the dibbuns all go inside.

Bastien quickly heads inside the cave.

Benick follows the hare inside.

Luna looks around at the cave.

Oz gets the others inside as he carried Cera inside and lays her down, he quickly gets some old wood from a corner and gets a small fire started to warm the cave.

Cera whimpers.

Luna looks at Oz “Papa Oz you okies?”

Benick looks around and sits by the fire and looks at Oz.

Oz sighs, "Just stay by the fire, I will be fine you guys need warm more" He frowns at the small fire and debates on getting more firewood somehow; he looks outside and back to them.

Dustfur walks in, sucking his thumb and shivering. "Badger...I cowd. I g-got wost..."

Bastien looks at the mouse as he comes in and since he doesn’t recognize him he goes over to him "Hi thar.."

Benick stays close to the badger as he and his sister stay under a cloak.

Dustfur walks unsteadily toward Oz.

Oz looks in the basket they have "Well...can still eat a little of the snack, but should make it last and have a couple blankets still “He looks at Dustfur, his fur is still wet and he hands a blanket to him and smiles.

Bastien frowns "I want daddy"

Feisty comes into the cave shivering.

Bastien frowns and goes to hide behind Oz

Feisty laughs. "Nae, there's nae need tae fear me, wee one."

Oz looks up as a squirrel comes in and coughs, he nods "Greetings" He frowns and looks out "Need more firewood but..the storm."

Feisty laughs again. "Ah came prepared." He pulls out a few bundles of wood that he sliced with his claymore. "As mae mother used tae say, never go out naer winter without wood."

Luna stays close to Oz as she looks over at the squirrel.

Bastien frowns "Still want daddy"

Benick says "Benick knights hate snow!"

Oz counts the dibbuns, he looks over at Cera and frowns, his cloak is wet still but he keeps it on for now and the dibbuns are most likely warmer than him, he nods at the little bit of firewood, he sits down “Storm won’t last on my dears, just stay inside and..we will be fine"

Dustfur gazes at Feisty and Oz. "W-w-Wharra abbey?"

Oz looks at Dustfur "We can’t go to the abbey right now little one, will get more lost in the snow, we...we must wait, they will find us"

Dustfur frowns. "B-but...I warra go HOME!"

Oz smiles best he can "We are safer here little one" He looks out at the raging snow and frowns. “Most safer here"

Luna and Benick start to get tried, Oz makes sure the dibbuns stay close enough to stay warm but not so close they get burned, he sits back down and watches the snow, he shivers a little and coughs.

Dustfur curls up under the blanket Oz gave him.

Feisty sits down. "A noble thing indeed, but ya must keep yourself warm as well...otherwise it may very weel be thae death of ye."

Dustfur whimpers in the background

Oz frowns "I..I am the dibbun caretaker, my first concern are the dibbuns here and two of them happen to be the champion’s dibbuns...I keep them safe and warm and calm...it was not my plan to get stuck in a storm, we have to wait it out then.....well sooner or later the abbey will know we are gone and come looking for us."

Feisty nods. "Aye, but thae've been taken care of, nae havent they? Now ya must keep yourself alive. Ahm not much of a caretaker, and they NEED ya if their gonna survive."

Dustfur moans softly. "Hungwee...tirewd...wharra abbey?"

Oz nods "I know, don't plan on leaving, fire should be ok till morning and there is enough food for them, “He looks over at Dustfur "Its ok little one, sure Flicktail will find us soon..after it stops snowing"

Dustfur shudders, then finally falls into a sort of half-sleep near the fire, making small whimpering noises occasionally, and his teeth chatter constantly. "Wanna...g-get...back...to...w-w-Wedwall."

Feisty sighs. "Pore wee mite."

Oz frowns, he makes sure the fire is a little bigger and sits down “Lot colder outside then in here...long as fire is burning there is heat"

Feisty nods. "And like mae auld father used tae say up in the northlands, 'where thar heat, thar be life, so keep it burnin, laddie!'

Oz smiles "Use to live in the northlands, lots of snow up there that’s for sure"