He barely even felt the teeth at first as he lifted the hyena over his shoulder. He did, of course, but she had bitten and scratched him already and they had been superficial wounds. But as he pulled her from the air and her teeth were torn away from him, he felt an intense pain sear across his neck.

The demon snarled as he quickly let go of her to clamp his palms on his bleeding neck. A huge chunk of the skin had been torn off, and she very well may have torn an artery under there. Trying to staunch the blood beginning to drop from between his fingertips, he called for something, anything that might help him, and the chaotic magic that had swarmed him these last few cycles eventually landed on something that tingled at his fingertips. He felt his mind going blurry and he quickly snapped the link of magic away. He needed to get somewhere to fix this before he bled out as well.

He was about to hurry from the forum, to return to Draco and seek a healer before he passed out form the blood loss, but paused, glancing back at the chrysalis forming where Relic had fallen.

Even though blood was soaking his fur and he knew he didn't have long, he turned to quickly unhook the unbroken pieces of armor from the hyena's body, setting them in as neat a pile as he could with hands that were beginning to shake, next to the chrysalis where they wouldn't hinder her hibernation, or get further damaged.

He didn't linger, though, and only offered her a few seconds of respectful silence before he turned and leaped out of the forum, wings opening to hurry him along on his sprint.