Nutmeg Tiger Cookie stood atop a high bluff, her form a stark silhouette against the reddish sky. Her eyes narrowed as she surveyed the soldiers of her tribe scrambling to reinforce the encampment below. She saw a flicker of hesitation, a moment of weakness, as two Nutmeg Tiger soldiers struggled to haul a heavy crystallized sugar barrier into place.

With a snarl, she leaped from the bluff, landing with a thud that sent shivers through the ranks.

"Pathetic! Do you intend to be swept away like dust?" Her voice cut through the wind's howl. She shoved one of the soldiers aside and single-handedly slammed the barrier into its socket. "The storm does not bargain. It does not wait for the slow or the fearful. It consumes them!"