VIOLET
Darkness wrapped around me like a shroud—thick, endless, heavy. I couldn't feel my body. I couldn't speak. But I wasn't gone.
I was somewhere in between.
Somewhere… deeper.
A place where time didn't exist and yet stretched endlessly before me.
At first, there was only silence. Not even the beat of my heart to ground me. But then—slowly, like distant thunder rolling through a valley—I heard the sound of paws on wet earth. Soft, deliberate, powerful. My breath hitched—if I was even breathing—because I knew that sound.
Wolf?
I tried to call out, to reach for him, but I had no voice. Only sensation. The sound came closer, circling, until golden mist began to curl in around me. It glowed faintly, illuminating the black void I'd been floating in.
And then I saw her.
The wolf.
