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"THE END IS COMING!" Cumulous wailed, waving his tail about in the air to catch people's attention, "THE BIGGEST STORM WE'VE EVER HAD! I, a dragon with the treasured gift of Storm Sight, made the prediction days ago! It will be upon us, soon! We must take cover! Now! Already the riverstones prepare one of the largest caves for us to shelter in! They've brought enough food to last us for weeks! We'll be save there! But we must leave, Now!"

Some of the dragons surrounding him looked a bit anxious, but most had good-natured (if not a bit annoyed) looks on their faces.
"Come on, Cumie!" a large brute of a whetstone chuckled, "there's not a cloud in the sky! You've been eating some bad berries, or something."

"Hold on, you said you've stored up meat in a cave?" A female riverstone - not one of Cumulous's followers - interjected, "How much meat? ... THAT'S why there's barely been any game recently! You might have thrown off the whole habitat around here! If you killed too many creatures... they won't have their young in the spring, and there might be a shortage! Have you asked the older dragons about this?! How could you do something like this without approval! This could mean trouble in the spring!" Worried murmurs spread throughout the crowd.

"Trust me," Cumulous frowned urgently, "I SENSED this storm! It'll be the biggest we've ever seen! We MUST take shelter!"

"--biggest I've ever seen!" A passing dragon remarked to the friend who was accompanying him, "I mean it! It's the biggest fight they've ever been in."
"Who?" the other dragon asked in confusion.
"Tazia and Rumero," the dragon replied, "who else? They've been in some fights before, but then this morning..." He shook his head in astonishment. "It's the biggest spat yet! I mean, they're REALLY going at it! I just about curled up and hid in a hole!"

The dragons passed by, and there was silence as members of the pack slowly peaced together what had happened.

"I-it's coming," Cumulous began again half-heartedly, "M-maybe not today, but... Soon! I swear it!"

The dragons around him scowled and began to disperse, muttering about the nerve of some dragons.
"And HEY!" the female riverstone scowled, "tell my fellow riverstones to bring all that meat you had them get out of the cave and distribute it throughout the pack. We might as well make use of as much of it as we can before it spoils."

With that, she stormed off, leaving Cumulous alone.

"But... It's coming," Cumulous insisted quietly to the empty valley, "I know it is..."