
The gloom flowed around her, thick and cold like some fantasy ooze. Only it was no fable. The woods breathed, watched, heard. It was the perfect place for the Voodoo-marked Aztec she-wolf to spend the afternoon relaxing.
Quetzalxochitl lifted her black head, the bone-like white markings that decorated her pitch black fur gleamed in the semi-darkness. Outside the woods the sun was out, shining bright. But there, in the darkened edge of the haunted forest, there was perpetual twilight.