Great Bear Wilderness Demons among us

The last he expected her to do was lash out at him for waking her, but here he was, recoiling from her snapping jaws like a gazelle fleeing from a crocodile. Though his instinctual reaction was to become angry and punish anyone for having the gall to attack him, the angry words she slurred felt... out of character. He and Tzila got along swimmingly the other day, so why had she become so volatile? It sounded as if she was speaking to someone else, eyes open but brain still asleep.

Wake up, you fiend! Black Hat hollered, hoping his voluminous, grating voice would pierce through the haze in her mind.