Wheeling Gull Isle if you look away, the stars will know, and they will not be able to help you.

No no no no no no no!

Inside her head was a prolonged scream, a cry of frustration. The girl was gone, lost to the Void. She felt not grief but disappointment; she had failed to bring the young woman back to life. She could have saved her. If only she'd been quicker. Smarter. Better. 

Bewildered by the emergence of other wolves onto the scene, the swirling chaos around her, Maegi crashed backward into the brush, stumbling away without another glance. 

She bypassed the fish.

She wasn't hungry anymore.