nobody's safe

Eligos staggered a step as he crept along the ravine, shook his head to clear his eyes, and spat glowing fluid from his mouth. Sores had opened up where the fluid continuously drained from his eyes, ears, and mouth, with more along his forelegs where he kept wiping them, and oozed the same glowing fluid. He moved like a feral creature, in fits and spurts and startling at every sound in the darkness, turning on the source of the sound with snarls and snapping teeth so that much of the time the glowing fluid in his mouth dripped out mixed with blood - some of it his own where he'd bitten tongue or gnawed at the inside of his cheek, or lips, or legs. It was in that state that he'd found himself in this ravine with no memory of having travelled there. He took another step and found himself halfway across the ravine from where he'd last been, nothing but blankness in his memory to say how he'd gotten there. And at his feet was a young wolf and he was snapping at them reflexively for their unexpected proximity. Even as his teeth flashed some part of his brain was screaming at him in recognition.