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Chapter 0773 Nina The weathered old leader rushed to the unconscious man's side, cradling his sweat-drenched face in his calloused hands. For several agonizing heartbeats, the newly-cured man didn't move or make a sound.

Matt, Jessica, Lori and I stood off to the side, biting our lips. We watched silently, hoping that the antidote had worked properly this man wasn't a wolf shifter, after all. Perhaps the side effects were different than expected.

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Just when I was starting to fear the worst, the man's eyelids fluttered open, his glassy eyes wandering the room before managing to settle on Kai.

"Wh-Who is this?" the man whispered, lifting his weak hand to touch Kai's face.

"It's me, Isaac. Your father." Kai took Isaac's hand and pressed it into his cheek, letting his fingers explore his face. Isaac, still blind, wandered his father's face before recognition took over him.

"D-Dad?" His voice was a barely audible rasp, like rusty hinges creaking open on a weathered door. "What..... what happened? Where am I? Why can't I see anything?" Relief washed over the old leader's face as he gripped Isaac tighter. "What matters now is that you're alright, my boy," he murmured hoarsely. "You're safe now. Thanks to..." He paused, looking up atwith tears in his eyes." A friend." Kai swallowed, wincing as he did so. Kai wavedtoward him, and I stepped forward, dropping to my knees. "Isaac," I said softly, reaching out to touch his arm. "My nis Nina. I gave you an antidote to pull you out of your feral state, but I must warn you that you've lost" "I know." Isaac nodded weakly. "I can feel the absence of my panther. But it's better this way." There was a brief silence. I looked over at Kai, and he nodded, encouraging me. "Isaac, I have to ask you," I said, " what happened? How did you wind up like... that?" Jessica and the others crowded around, all of us straining to catch Isaac's next words as he blinked owlishly with unseeing eyes.

"I was... trapped," he muttered, his brow furrowing as he tried to recall everything. "In that body, that... animal. But now..." He lifted a trembling hand, flexing his fingers.

Kai chuckled wetly, smoothing back Isaac's damp hair. "Yes, son. You are yourself again, thanks to Nina. But now, you must tell her everything you remember from Mila's palace. What happened to you there?" For a long moment, he simply stared blankly up at the ceiling, his eyes glazed and vacant. Then, a tremor seemed to pass through him, and a spark of clarity lit behind his cloudy irises.

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"The gasses," he breathed, the words tumbling out in a sudden rush. "Deep in the heart of the mountain, there are these... pools. It looks like water, but it's not. And the steam... At first it's not so bad, just a tickle in your lungs, a thickness in the air..." He trailed off, his haunted gaze growing distant as he recalled whatever fresh hell he had endured. I felt a chill run down my spine.

"But then it gets worse," he continued in that sragged murmur. "Seeping into your mind, your very bones, until your thoughts start to... twist. Fracture. Every breath is agony, burning you from the inside out until all you want is for the pain to stop..."

A tremor ran through him, and suddenly Kai was there, grasping his face and whispering soothing words in their native tongue. I glanced over at the others, seeing my own fear mirrored in their ashen expressions. After a few moments, Isaac seemed to cback to himself. He blinked hard, refocusing his eyes with frightening intensity.

"That's how she does it, you see," he said. "Mila... sh-she lets the fumes drive you to the brink of madness. And

once you're nearly gone, a husk of your former self..." He swallowed hard, his Adam's apple bobbing in his throat: "That's when she comes for you." I frowned, leaning in closer. "What does she do?" I pressed gently.

Isaac flinched, as if my words had caused him physical pain. "She... unmakes you," he whispered, his face going bloodless. "Takes whatever scrap of humanity you have left and twists it beyond recognition. Reshapes you, remolds you into her own twisted vision until you're nothing but a thrall."

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