“Sorry Kat, but you're just going to have to endure it. I wanted to prepare you before this happened.” Kora sighs, her voice floating to me in the darkness.
I try to ask her what she means, but I can’t speak through the pain. My nerve endings are on fire.
Her voice drifts away from me, out of reach. Pain similar to the curse ravages my body, only it doesn’t end. I see no end to the pain when I am suddenly drifting, floating in the abyss.
The darkness ripples like a stone, skipping along the water. A picture flickering in front of my eyes grows larger before I am thrown into it, forced to become a part of it.
******
It is the same place, the place with wolves dying in the field. I know because I recognize the man's eyes, it is the black wolf that she saved first.
"Marabella," he say
