Shadowwyn Moor Don't you know it is just the chemicals in our veins that causes pain?

Morwenna is wife to me, the man said with threatening fangs.

Shadowpaw had misstepped. The unassuming name had betrayed the girl and became evidence of her deceit. What she thought was little white lie, wasn’t – evidenced by how quickly the man ate up the distance between them.

She cowered like a dog. “What’re you doing?” Shadowpaw shot as the last thimble of her hubris was poured out. She scrambled and tried to flee. “Let me go!” she resisted as her escape was cut off.

The man’s teeth found her haunch next. Shadowpaw yelped a horrible sound in panic and dropped to the floor. “Stop!” the girl cried.