Suddenly, she felt her two incisor teeth begin to expand. To grow. To sharpen.
Immediately, she pulled back, closing her mouth, looking away.
“What is it?” he asked, surprised. “What’s wrong?”
But she couldn’t sit there another second. Her body was screaming at her to do something that her mind couldn’t understand. What was happening?
She didn’t know. But she did know that she couldn’t risk being around Blake for one more second. She knew that if she looked at him again, if she turned his way, for a fraction of a second, it would be over. She would be unable to control herself.
So without another word she leapt down off the tree, and sprinted away, bounding across the tracks, up the hill, back towards the forest trail. She ran with a speed and agility she never knew she had—and within just a few seconds, was far, far away from the river. From Blake.
And far from the Scarlet she once knew.