Blackfeather Woods It's not like you're unpredictable

The she-wolf spoke, though Wildfire couldn't make any sense of her words. In fact, consciousness slipped away from her entirely, eyes sliding closed and breath becoming shallow as the heavy dose of poison dragged through her bloodstream.

It wasn't a heavy sleep, however, and her limbs began to twitch as a dream took form. She was back in Drageda, standing on the beach beside Thuringwethil and watching their children play in the surf. Wildfire whimpered under her breath. Then the scene shifted and she was stuck in Hougeda, endlessly weaving through the underground caves but unable to find a way out. It grew darker and darker until she was effectively blind and slamming into rock walls.

In her nightmare, she paused to catch her breath, when something reached out in the darkness and touched her coldly.