10 I felt as though my soul was wrenched from my body and tossed into the far reaches of time. The colors around me blurred as though I’d been thrown at great speed into a tunnel pointed in pastels. A light appeared at the end of the tunnel and the world was clear again, but not the same one I’d left. Night still lay over the wild lands of the fox clans as I found myself floating like a ghost over wild woods. I looked at my hand and my eyes widened as I saw through them as though I was a ghost. “This again?” I whispered to myself. My right hand still clutched the ring, and I tried to open my fingers. They wouldn’t obey me. Panic overtook me and I fumbled with my disobedient fingers. No amount of effort would pry them open. I was also floating forward at a gentle pace, but one ov

