{Ryanna’s POV}
I fell through layers of consciousness down, until the world dissolved into the dreamless ink. No sound, no light, only an immense, soft absence pressing in from all sides.
There was neither ground nor sky for what felt like an eternity. Before the poison in my blood screamed, dragging me even further down, weakening my will. But somewhere beneath the dark, something stirred.
My wolf.
She howled, not in pain, not in surrender, but in warning. And then I saw it — a flash of what might have been a memory, or maybe it was just a dream. Whatever it was, I experienced it in stark detail like I was there… yet I remembered nothing but the one line: "WAKE UP RYANNA!."
And just like that, I woke up. Wheezing.
My eyes glid open just in time to see movement from the person above
