[ Big bony bear claws catch in the splintering door, with a thump of weight that seems to make the entire hut creak ominously, shaking dust amongst the bars of sunlight creeping through gaps in the wood wide enough to slot your fingers through. Outside, the creature goes about its excavation with a kind of plodding curiousity, absent-minded in its ferocity.
It won't be long now.
Or maybe it will be a little longer. It's a strange noise, specifically electrical and so not often heard by those unaccustomed to wielding it. A zap, and a crackle, and a sharp white light flickering brighter than sunlight that recalls lightning.
Immediately, the bear gives a rumbling roar of pain, dragging its claws out of the door. Distracted from its task.
In the air, there is now the smell of burning fur, and ozone. ]
He-llo, you're an ugly one, [ sounds like a man, somewhere outside. There's another crackle of sharp white light -- tearing metal, flame glancing off dry kindling, the sound of a knife running sharp off a whetstone, those are all the things it sounds like -- and another bear growl that is itself unmistakable for anything else. ]
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It won't be long now.
Or maybe it will be a little longer. It's a strange noise, specifically electrical and so not often heard by those unaccustomed to wielding it. A zap, and a crackle, and a sharp white light flickering brighter than sunlight that recalls lightning.
Immediately, the bear gives a rumbling roar of pain, dragging its claws out of the door. Distracted from its task.
In the air, there is now the smell of burning fur, and ozone. ]
He-llo, you're an ugly one, [ sounds like a man, somewhere outside. There's another crackle of sharp white light -- tearing metal, flame glancing off dry kindling, the sound of a knife running sharp off a whetstone, those are all the things it sounds like -- and another bear growl that is itself unmistakable for anything else. ]