RIO
“Mum,” I cried out. “Please, don’t leave me again.” I whimpered as everything around me faded back to black.
As I drifted into the haze of uncertainty, I felt warmth wrap around me.
It wasn’t my mum. It felt different but connected.
Wolf?
No. It was also different.
“Come back to me, sweetheart. I promise to explain everything. Wake up.”
I could hear her voice calling out to me as I floated lifelessly. Her voice was like a beacon in the night. A lighthouse in the fog, guiding me back.
Before I could reach her, I saw something else in the approaching distance.
A cat. A rather large cat.
The voice hissed the words ‘Soon, little one!’
“Rio, come back to me.” The first voice called out to me, pulling my attention from the curious cat before me.
‘Go. Trust in them. Trus
