She watched silently as the others fled only after the dark coloured fae shot a few reluctant looks at the brute standing next to her in their death trap. He had an air of authority about him and she guessed he must be of some high rank. A sharp cough escaped her and her body shuddered with the effort of getting it out. She shook her head sharply, now was not the time to be thinking of things as foolish as ranks. The fire circling them would not care who you were when it swooped down to take your life so until they were safe neither should they. She felt like she was swimming through a fog, her brain feeling slow and slurred as she glanced around at the dancing lights surrounding them, feeling painful sparks spring at her yet luckily none had actually caught on properly as she shook them off fearfully. The faint delirious thoughts had dimmed slightly as she forced her scattered mind to pull itself together and focus but she didn't know how long she had until she'd start to slip away again as her gaze grew cloudier and sleepier and this fact scared her more than the actual flames holding them captive. It was something she remembered being told as a young wolf, in the days before she'd met Magnus where they were trained and prepared they used to talk about pretty much anything to keep their minds off the horror of their existence. Someone had experienced a fire before and had lost her parents, she'd said it was rarely the actual flames that killed you but the treacherous smoke. She started as her companion spoke to her for the first time, she'd almost forgotten he was there, and she pushed herself to her paws and shook her head indignantly. "I'm fine." She stated in a clipped and protective voice, letting her single eye shift itself from him to the destruction going on around them. Claudia had little time for trust, if it was one thing she'd learnt in the past it was that the more you kept to yourself the safer you'd be...especially when it came to brutes and being stuck in this fire with him now left her uneasy and suddenly she craved the solitude she'd had only moments before.

She was sensible enough to be scared but her earlier panic was fading and filling her instead with a weird acceptance and she wondered idly if it was the smoke messing with her thoughts, leaving her wanting to just lie down and let herself fall into an eternal sleep. It was not like she owed anyone anything, the only wolf she knew around here was Magnus and she supposed partially killian and Chiara but she hadn't spoken to them enough for it to mean anything and Magnus had Chiara and a pack now...their uneasy friendship from before was no longer of much importance. However never had she been one for giving up, she had not escaped her prison and sealed faith before only to end up in another and she pushed herself forward so that she stood closer to the male however making sure the distance between them was still decent. She let her gaze move slowly around the land they stood on, she noticed with a sickening feeling in her stomach that the circle was growing smaller by the second, the flames steadily closing in on their prey. A longing to inhale deeply came over her, to calm herself before the panic could return and jumble her thoughts but her breath was cut short with another hacking cough that made her sway slightly on her paws. Blinking furiously, she ducked her head and held it close to the ground to take a few short breaths. The smoke was everywhere now but at least it was not as thick down here. "The smoke isn't as strong down here if you're struggling to get a breath" She rasped at her company as she pushed herself back up to her full height and glanced briefly in his direction. However he was busy trying to remove an ember that had fallen dangerously close to his eye and she winced slightly at the memory of losing the sight in her own left eye, however he managed to save himself and she blinked with relief before glancing up as another voice broke through the crackling sounds of the ferocious fire.

He was dark furred and much smaller than her, in fact the other brute was smaller than her too but not by as much which left her as the largest of the group. Despite her gender this was not anything new to her, it was also why she'd been so prized in the pack that had held her captive and why she'd been chosen to be Guardian before Magnus had fled. Shaking her head to keep herself focused in the present she listened to the other's words, straining to hear him over the roar of Mother Nature herself. It was a decent idea she decided and she took a shaky step forward to where the earthen coloured brute had already started working on it. She felt woozy and unsteady from the lack of oxygen but was determined to be a help rather than a nuisance and kept herself as steady as she could as she stepped forward. She flattened her ears and let her gaze narrow as he called to her to help but held her tongue for now was most definitely not the time to let her sharp tongue get in the way of things as it so commonly did and forced herself to step by him and began kicking the dirt onto the targeted flames with as much strength as she could muster. Her muscles ached but she was strong and remained upright and steady as she helped the brute. They weren't dying here today.

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