I shouldn’t be this close to the lake.
But the thought felt fuzzy, and far away. She could smell that there were pack wolves nearby, very close nearby, and yet, Kyna just couldn’t bring herself to care. Was this was Greer felt like when he ate those apples, and she thought he might have been dying? But she hadn’t eaten any apples recently – just the scavenged corpse of a deer two days past – and she was fairly certain anything she’d consumed would have passed by now. Which did not explain why she felt so warm, or dizzy, or—
I need to find Greer.
But her sense of direction seemed to be a little off kilter, for Kyna did not remember usually passing by the lake on her way north to visit her friend. She’d made the trek enough times now that she knew the way, but her feet didn’t seem to want to listen. Or maybe she wasn’t telling them correctly? All she knew was that she wanted-- Or maybe she just needed—
A thought struck the girl then, stopping her dead in her tracks. Golden eyes grew wider still. “Oh no,” she mouthed, ears pressing back against her head.
She was turning into Aponi, wasn’t she?