The sky was dark, the earth silent, only the wind and snow,
"ying"
Amidst this silence, at some unknown time, a piercing shriek suddenly arose, like thunder breaking through the night.
Sharp, fearsome, and shrill, it cut through the wind and snow, echoing between the peaks and valleys, spreading far and wide.
This disturbance seemed to shatter the tranquility within the snowy landscape, as movement began in the surrounding forest, spreading over a radius of several miles.
The deathly quiet forest against the backdrop of wind and snow,
"rustle"
"swish"
Branches swayed, and the bowed branches shook off their accumulations of snow; amidst the snow, there were other rustling sounds of movement.
These mysterious rustling sounds, like radiating lines, converged from several directions, akin to waves of grain swaying in the wind, as some lurking beasts in the darkness caught the scent of something unusual and gathered in this place.
It was a valley beneath a cliff!
