Awareness slowly made its way into the man?s eyes as he emerged from the enchantment. Confused and disoriented he turned his head from side to side, trying to get his bearings. When his eyes fell on Alais he shrunk back, fear written on his face. His voice came out in barely a whisper as he uttered her name, ?Alais??
The smile on the sorceress? face was cold and hard. ?Ye dae well tae fear me, but t?day yer fate is no? in mah ?ands.? Her eyes flicked to the wolf, drawing the man?s attention downward. ?And Ah suspect tha? ye?ll wish t?was me tender mercies ye were facin? afore th? day is doone.?
Kayla?s lips were drawn back to reveal her teeth and a low growl rumbled in her throat. As the man?s eyes met hers, the spell that had begun in a grove on the Twilight Isle descended upon him. All of his senses narrowed until the wolf was all he could perceive. Her growl reverberated in his ears, an inescapable throbbing that pressed in on him. Her eyes bore into his. Not the eyes of an animal who killed because she needed to, but the eyes of a sentient creature who delighted in the hunt and the devastation of her prey. Her breath rose up and nearly overwhelmed him, filled with the sickly sweet scent of blood and meat from her kill that morning. With a scream, he turned and fled, running blindly onto the grounds.
Kayla raced after him, nipping at his legs, driving him forward. Every time he stumbled and fell, she was on top of him, claws raking his back, jaws closing with a snap right next to his ears. Then she would be past him and he would flail his way back to his feet, weeping with terror, staggering forward in whatever direction he happened to be facing. Again and again she drove him to the ground, winding his panic tighter and tighter until at last he fell and could not rise. His body shuddered, wracked with sobs of incoherent fear. His hands clawed uselessly at the ground, instinctively trying to grasp something, anything, that might provide a way of escape. This time Kayla lept upon him and stayed. She slashed at his side with her claws, forcing him to turn onto his back. He desperately tried to push her away as her jaws descended towards his face. His shrieks turned to gurgles as the the wolf?s snout entered his mouth and they came to an abrupt end as she bit down on his lower jaw and her teeth pierced his tongue and chin.