Greatwater Lake **** **

No. No! Not that she was here, it was the last place she wanted to be. It was one thing to entertain a ridiculous notion in your mind - quite another to be forced into the situation against your will. Panic consumed her, boiling over, derailing common sense.

"Shhh, you'll only make it harder on yourself," the black stranger drawled, hosting her up and towards him.

The words tasted like sick.

Bazi threw herself sideways in a renewed attempt to break free, tail firmly planted against her hindquarters, and twisted her head to bite at her assailant's throat - to buy time for a renewed attempt at fleeing. This would not happen to her. Why had she come here, after so narrow an escape last time?