I could feel the darkness around my mind. Nothing like a blanket of cold and yet my mind was warm and fuzzy, I couldn't think straight. So tired, i wanted nothing more than to let myself drift and fall into nothing.

And then a spark, a small thought manifest in my mind. A memory of my past, of pain and loss and a heat grew in my chest. It was painful and hot rising in my temples as an ache yet I couldn't let it go. I wanted to wake but I could see anything but the memory. I couldn't hear the words, passing me by like some one speaking above the surface. The light of the sun breaking through the clouds.

Suddenly a wrenching sensation rippled through me. A sharp pain on the surface of my skin. Teeth ripping and tearing, I could feel the flesh pulling from the bone. While it separated from my body it wasn't separating from my mind. I could feel it leaving me and traveling down their throats. I could feel myself dissolving and then, the energy welling up in them. I could feel the teeth and the claws I could taste my flesh passing down my throats. My claws tearing into me, my many mouths ripping chunks from me and the flood. The conduits had formed, I could feel myself everywhere and I was full and tired. I needed to find somewhere to rest and digest, we turned away from the carcass. We could feel ourselves around us and we felt safe.

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Turning towards the stream we ran up it, a rush of heat and adrenaline flowing though me. Focussed on the path ahead I could see the trees passing by me and it was as if they were avoiding me, the forest grew dense and yet none of us were impeded.