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

"Don't get too close to her."

He would have thought it his mind warning him, only the voice was too real. A steadier thing than the slight tremble in Dagur's lip.

He watched as it looked like she nearly wanted to devour herself! Spinning and spinning, he had to look away lest he become dizzy too. He stepped back and —

There was Riley.

Dagur listened as the man begged and suddenly he felt a sickness himself. Not one like the Alpha Female carried, but one entirely conjured from emotions he had not tackled before. As if a grief not his own had settled in his gut. He wanted to be here, to offer support, but what could he do?

A scout was no medic.

Cowardly he took a step back and another one. Not sure yet if he should stay for Riley's sake (because there was no Raider's sake, the fevered thing was not the wolf he knew) or quickly return to Dragonspine.