the ridgeback beast

a cacophony of crackling bones and wailing engulfed the small valley Nathen was in, on the ridge, birds and mammals terrified and running down the slopes. for a ferocious beast had been summoned, a terrifyingly devilish canine had emerged from the shadows of the forest, a wolf the size of a bear, covered in the blackest of the blackest fur, it's bristles standing as tall as they could, and an arched back intensifying the hight of the beast. a low growl and panting emerging from the beast's throat.