Lion Head Mesa makes me see what i want to see

For Maegi, it was only a blink. A heartbeat between one state and another.

She was nosing around a bush that held just a trace amount of red berries, eyeing them carefully. She viewed most berries with some suspicion; she wasn't completely sure which were safe and which were not.

Poking her muzzle in, wary of thorns—

the next moment she

was

laying on the ground, tongue throbbing, ribs sore and blood pooling from her half-open mouth.

Just a blink.

For anyone observing, they'd have noticed the pale woman seize up suddenly, tumbling to the ground in convulsions. Perhaps witnessed her blue-tinged tongue protruding from her lips, then seized suddenly, violently, accidentally by her teeth.

Blood and motion, the thrashing, dull thuds of her body against ground;

A few minutes of mindless seizure, eyes rolled back in her head.

And Maegi helpless to it all, now breathing hard, gaze staring ahead in abject terror as she came back to herself.