Sunset Valley “no pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous”

Reduced to her basest self and senseless to her surroundings, Raider didn’t comprehend her comrade’s nearness, nor his warbling call. Drooling despite her body’s desperate need for hydration, she neither saw, nor heard, nor smelled anything that evoked anything resembling awareness.

Then something did break into her stupor: a fierce pain in her hindquarters prompted her to stop in her tracks and bend in half. She nipped at her own flesh, which only made the agony flare. It engulfed her like a flame, driving her into a final and furious frenzy.

She looked like an ouroboros, spinning in circles as she bit at her own rear. It wasn’t long before the revolutions made her dizzy, breaking the circle and sending her stumbling toward the bewildered Dagur.