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Gods no! Please! I — there are so many people and no time … no escape …
"Kaiya, what's going on?" Jaiel asked, his voice soft. I opened my eyes to look at him, those blue eyes wide with concern.
He seemed fine for the moment, at least.
Tye, on the other hand, stood just behind him, jaw clenched and arms already pulsing with the need to shift.
"Cover your ears," I demanded. "Maybe if you cover your ears, it won't …"
CaaaaAAAwwww
"What the hells is she saying?" Tye spat as he glared around the room, fingernails already elongating. "Fuck!" He looked down, then back up at me. "Why isn't the potion working anymore?"
I shook my head. It was happening so fast. I needed time to think.
Jaiel shook his head at Tye and turned back to me, brows lifted in question.
Fuck! If this was real, we were going to die.
Jaiel. Tye. Alpha, Faera. Everyone. At least Finn had gotten out —
Gods. I wasn't even able to save myself in Karemi. He had found me, bloody and half-dead. I only lived because he'd stopped the creature … and carried me to help. But no one was coming this time.
I slammed my eyes shut again.
How was this even happening? Lady Frexin promised —
CaaaaAAAwwww
A few growls sounded from the crowd of people around us.
"Shut up. Shut UP! SHUT UP!" came one masculine, angry voice.
"Papa. What's wrong?" A child responded, voice thready with worry.
But the only response was unsteady grunting and then the low growl of a wolf.
No! Gods no — not again! Another town slaughtered …
Sweltering desert air brushed against my skin as I took in the surrounding carnage. Bodies everywhere. Dried blood darkening the streets. What magic had driven the villagers to do this?
"Kaiya — come back to us!"
I shook my head, focusing on the stiff body of a young girl in my arms, dark hair caked in blood, brown eyes staring sightlessly above.
I reached for the single silver feather held tight in her grip.
CAAaaaAAAwwwwW
What was that sound, and WHY wouldn't it STOP?
My vision blurred more, and everything around me faded away.
For what felt like an eternity, I screamed — searching and raging until finally everything went dark. Blessedly dark.
"Please, Kaiya. We don't understand what's happening."
I woke, too weak to move, lips dried and cracked, body stiff and weak.
