He growled softly at the crashing thunder.

He wanted to snap at the lightning flashes.

Under her hand Nepeese felt the stiffening of his body, and in a moment of uncanny stillness she heard the sharp, uneasy click of his teeth.

Then the rain fell.
It was not like other rains Baree had known.

It was an inundation sweeping down out of the blackness of the skies.