Scarlet woke up feeling like she was being dragged; it was terrifying, and yet she couldn’t find anything that was dragging her. She fought against it, trying to get away from something she could not find.
But then she started hearing strange words and she gasped in pained surprise when she suddenly felt herself being forced into her true form and then found herself outside in the woods. She spotted a man standing in the shadows, chanting something in a different language, while she writhed in pain, an oddly pitched scream that sounded nothing like her usual voice coming from her luminescent form.
She tried to think of her tree, but something was holding her trapped and in pain in this small circle the man had created on the ground with stones and pieces of moss placed on each. The pa
