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A/N: This chapter is bugging me, I'm not entirely sure why

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Sari was sleeping soundly on her ledge in the fox den when the stone groaned and shifted showering her and everyone in the den with red dust. Rolling off her bed onto the ground Sari heard another shift of stone and felt more dust come down. Others were waking up and grumbling. Sari shook her head raising a personal cloud of dust. Rummaging threw her few things she found her headscarf and wrapped it around her mouth so she wouldn't breathe in too much of the annoying powder.

Sari had made it to the main fire where the top leaders were gathering when another shift dumped even more dust everywhere. Shifts in the cliffs were common and the only thing to do was wait for them to stop and clean up what had fallen. Sari couldn't help but cringe, with all the dust that had come down she knew she was going to feel it rubbed into her skin for a long time.

The top "officers" were all sitting around the embers in a grouchy silence. Her second in command Risk was muttering about her hair as she unsuccessfully tried to clean it out. They were all cranky, even the boys second in command, Twip who was always disgustingly cheerful, had his mouth in a grouchy line. The cleaning up was going to be a pain. Sari stretched, longing for her bed that she wouldn't be able to sleep in again that day. Glancing at the caves entrance Sari saw the tell tale twilight saying that the sun would be up soon.

Another shift sent down more dust and everyone around gave a collective sigh, cleaning up was going to be a verybig pain. Sari was starting to get uneasy, as the shift didn't groan to a stop like they always did. Sitting up from her lounged position a line of worry starting to appear between her eyes. Why wasn't it stopping? The rumble was growing louder, not quieter like they always did. Confused glances were traded around the fire. The rumble was getting even louder and the ground that they sat on started to wobble. Stone was starting to fall with the dust as the ground started to heave beneath them. Louder and louder came the rumble.

Sari was caught by surprise when the ground she sat on hiccupped and waved almost like it was water. Rock was falling faster and the rumble grew to a roar drowning out every other sound. Red ashes were starting to fly as the fire was tossed. Somewhere in the den a lamp broke. All sound was being drowned out by the falling rock and deep rumble of the earth. It felt like it was going to go on forever or until they were buried with dust and rock. The air was clogged with dust and all sight was lost. Screams of panic were lost in the roar of the earth.

With one last savage yank the ground settled down, leaving the people of Chammur to deal with the horror it had brought.

Ryne called out to everyone that could hear

"Don't move"

The Fox then told Twip to start a headcount, Risk to take some of the other officers and make sure all the fires were out, and Sari to make or find a clear space where the hurt could get medical help. Sari picked herself up off the floor and rubbed her neck, glad that it wasn't broken or smashed like too many had to be.

The earthquake from nowhere hit Chammar hard, causing countless cave-ins and destroying old and new buildings in an almost random manner.