All good things come to an end

She put the bones away and felt Azrael move beside her. She thought nothing of it until a sudden pain struck her neck. She froze, more out of confusion than fear. She didn’t understand… She turned to look at him, her innocent expression showing betrayal as her mind grew groggy. Postponed… What did he mean?

She tried to get to her paws. To… to do something. She couldn’t grasp an idea, her thoughts seemed scattered. The blackness grew in the corners of her vision. Her expression was one of deep confusion and then she collapsed at his paws. Fighting the mixture flooding through her veins one last time, before her eyes closed, and she slumped unconscious over the dead embers of her firepit.


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