Chapter Thirty-Nine

Man As Beast

Koin

He was nearly to town when a sudden blinding pain knocked him to his knees, he laid face down on the ground for a moment then flipped over on his back. There was a stab to his side, his eyes were open, but he didn't see the blue sky above the field he was walking through. He saw a dark ceiling, grey like cement, everything else was blurry, red dropped into his vision as he gasped in a breath. Fear overtook him, someone talking that he couldn't really understand. Another flash of searing pain, another only different against his thigh, digging in, working against him as he thrashed. Then it was gone. He was. There in the field, laying on his back with his arms and legs splayed out.

Azier took over so quickly Koin didn't have a chance to process it before he was pushed to the back and blocked in. Koin's body was hardly well enough to shift, but Azier forced it anyways and bounced off to the right into dense forest.

Koin wasn't sure he cared. He was riddled with inten