Blackwater Islands was hypnotized by a strange delight

The three-legged healer shoved her way between them, protecting her from Mou's teeth. Not soon enough, though, to stop his fangs from piercing her marred cheek, sending fresh blood dribbling down the old wound, an iron tang on her tongue—

SKULLCHASER

the Void beneath her paws

she stumbled backward breathing hard little girl

The wound fresh, anew, as if no time at all had passed from crag to cave—

He's not. . .not—what?! Maegi demanded, feeling as if the other two wolves stood a thousand miles away. She spat a glob of crimson; it hit the ground with a sharp splat, and she wondered how it felt to have one's skull caved in;

Not right? Not here? What the FUCK did you all do to him?!