The massive black wolf collapsed onto the ground, writhing in agony, its abdomen pierced and being consumed by the shadows.

"Rose, run now… run… little one… forget about us."

"No! No more running! I won’t leave you! I won’t leave you!"

Rose screamed, maddened with rage and vengeance, consumed by the fury of not even being able to control her own inner world.

She charged forward like a lunatic toward her arch-nemesis—her darker, crueler self—which turned to face her.

"Give them back to me, damn