Mount Apikuni so let go, let go.

Night had fallen by the time Summer revealed his bright lemon eyes to the world again. For a moment, he didn't know where he was, but slowly it came back to him. The memory was a hazy blur for he had been too exhausted to retain much else, but what he did know was that he was farther from Sunspire than he had been since he had joined the pack. And given the recent events that had transpired, he really needed to get back before anyone missed him.

Little Levi pulled himself onto his paws and began to head home, only to stop after taking a few steps as a sudden realization swept over him.

He felt fine.

Not something any other wolf would brag about, but for Summer Ostrega, it was as though he were no longer himself. He looked down at his paws, the strange feeling that they didn't belong to him settling in. These were not the paws of a calm wolf. This fur didn't belong to a being whose mind could think clearly, that wasn't polluted with darkness and worry. This heart could not be his for certain. It was beating steadily, gently even. Summer's heart throbbed on the verge of attack even when he laid down to sleep.

Summer looked around himself with wonder. He wasn't even tired. Had he truly slept without constantly tossing and turning? He tried to remember what he had been dreaming about before he awoke, but came up with nothing. No nightmares, nothing. But why? How was it possible?

A wind swept up across the field and a familiar knock began upon his sides, drawing his gaze to the foliage at his paws. The bulbs--did this have something to do with them? He leaned closer to sniff at one, leaning back when his memory responded to the smell with enthusiasm. He looked dawn warily at it, something telling him that this was a plant that he was supposed to stay away from. But if it had helped him, then how could it be bad?

Summer turned away and broke into a run. He needed to return to the Sunspire and away from those strange plants. The change in his mood was because he finally got a good day of sleep, and he was able to sleep only because he had been so exhausted. That was it. There was nothing else to attribute this to.

Only time would prove to Summer that he was wrong, that his healing had come from eating the strange plant. And once it did, he would return, and not for the last time.

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