You can be whatever you want to be in this.

One day You were in BIG danger, holding onto a big Ice cliff and you almost fell off of it, holding onto it with your claws, trying not to die today. You were silently panicking, Unable to think without panicking. You tail slumped under your legs, your ears dropped over your head in panic, slowly your claws were giving up. You were unsure if there was a group nearby or at all.