FOREVER KNIGHTS: #9 Feral Breed

Rosewynn Manor, Outside Meadowbrook, Grier Country

DERAGAN

Nora’s room changed into a cabin in this nightmare. Out the window a mountainous landscape bulged the terrain for as far as she could see. Trees surrounded the ramshackle shelter. A sparkling film of snow coated everything.

Nora recognized there was blinding pain down one side of her body and when she tried to move one leg, the little it would slide was followed by blinding surges of agony. It was clear to tell it would not hold her. Dragging herself to the door, on one leg and her hands, she poked her head out.

Night had arrived. The moon’s glow reflecting on white snow making it blindingly vibrant.Twisting to see the full moon, from where she stood on her hands and one knee, she felt its warmth seep into her pores. Closing her eyes blissfully as it charged her with energy. Helping to abate some of the misery.

Sensing movement her eyes snapped open. Skeletal branches were still. Narrow and coated in fluffy silver frost. To her left, in the grove, something struggled to keep from sight. Avoiding light. Repulsed by it.

It moved again, and she glimpsed gray trimmed in white fur. Swallowing hard she realized who it was. That he’d been tracking her. Disquiet unfurled in her stomach.

Terrified, she slammed the door. Thudding across the cabin to cower by the fire, she toppled a chair, and rumpled furs on the floor as she fumbled.

Adding logs to the fire she ignored her heart pulsing in her ears. Shrinking next to the flames as she watched the door.

When it whipped open and crashed against the haphazard wall making the whole shelter rattle she cringed and gasped. Pushing further into the wall as she willed herself invisible. Struggling to stand despite having a leg she couldn’t put weight on.

A withered old face and small colorless eyes watched her. Black even where whites should’ve been. That expressionless face was trimmed in a thin gray beard.

Instinctive fear curl inside her.

He’d invaded her nightmares before. She knew his face.