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Biting Chill ( 18 ) : The cold is strangely harsh, and even the still wind is vicious enough to sting. But the cold isn't the worst part of tonight--it's what comes with it. Out of a swirl of blowing snow, a massive, wispy wolf takes shape, enormous and snarling, with fur spiked like jagged icicles. Its eyes glow with a cold, wild intelligence, and before you can even react, it lunges as though you’ve trespassed deep into its territory. Every strike it makes feels like the bite of winter itself. Wherever its claws slash, wherever its jaws snap, frost cakes over. Even if you're lucky enough not to take massive damage, the cold seeps bone deep. When you manage to land a hit, the creature bleeds a strange, clear blood--icy water that freezes instantly into slush on the ground. The more damage it takes, the more its form flickers, shredded like wind-torn snow. The wolf fights with the relentless instinct of a dire beast, but it is not invulnerable. It will never run. It will fight until its body is broken and flickering, then--finally--a sudden gust will rip through the air and carry its dissolving body away. Howls echo on the wind. The rest of its pack probably isn't too far behind.

Note: This strange wolf is not a youma but can be used as a battle requirement for a character. It can only be used as a battle if there are two powered characters involved; you cannot write a solo and count this as a battle, and your character must be powered to meet battle requirements. You can use the prompt for as many characters as you like and it will count as a battle requirement, however if you repeat the prompt with the same character, only the first time will be usable as a battle.

This magic thing, this cube of whatever it was, Albrecht didn't exactly like it, but he couldn't help but be curious about what was written on that disc-looking thing inside of the cube. The only downside was that having it out came with all that other stuff, so he felt like it would be best not to mess with it in the archives unless he wanted to deal with people asking if he had picked up a hobby.

So it meant that he was outside, walking with another coat over the oddly technological-looking one that came with the cube and looking over the cube under one of the brighter streetlights. He had a pen and paper leaning on his thigh as he sat on a bench nearby some of the overly decorated trees that lined this stretch of green space between bus stops.

His brow furrowed as he looked over the thing, not knowing what the symbols meant as he copied them down to the best of his ability. He had Ekstrom's number, though the ring thing she'd mentioned hadn't popped up for him yet. There'd been a pull towards somewhere, but with the flood of new purchases coming into the archive that he had to sort and tag, he hadn't put much thought into this weirder sort of hobby that had been thrown at him out of nowhere.

With a sigh, he pulled out his phone to text her, asking if she was free to meet up. Though after sending it, he thought he saw something moving nearby and tucked both his notebook and phone away. He didn't feel anything, though he hadn't exactly paid much attention last time when that monster had been biting at him.

Staring off into the swirling snow, he couldn't help that feeling of being watched. It was a new occurance, coming with this whole magic thing, and he still wasn't sure if he liked it either.