10
Fight or Flight
Salia immediately gave the order to retreat; half the pack were already leaping away, heading further into the forest. Thalaea remained transfixed by the oncoming torchlights for another few seconds, until Laeanai bounded up to her and gave her shoulder a tug.
Come on!
She shook herself and got up, following clumsily after the pack. Her leg had fallen asleep.
A few feet later, she stopped, horrified.
My rucksack!
She couldn’t leave without it. So long as she was trapped in humanoid form, she needed the things within it. And she felt oddly attached to her material goods now she was mortal.
She was already back into the cave and searching for her sack in the dark, leaving philosophizing for later. The torches were closer now and she could smell the hunters and thei
