Barretta woke on her side in the dark forest moss disoriented and confused, pain lancing through one of her wings. Immediately crying out, the sound echoing through the woods, she collapsed to the forest floor again and looked at her wing. Her once blonde eagle-like wing was soaked in blood and bent completely in half over itself under a large boulder that had fallen on her during the earthquake. The earthquake that she had no idea how much time had elapsed since it had happened. All she knew is that it was night.

Luckily, only her feathers had been trapped, so her wing was only snapped in half and not shattered. Unluckily though, since her wing was bent in half, a piece of her bone had broken through her skin resulting in the copious amounts of blood coating her wing. Barretta couldn't bend her body far enough to reach the boulder, and even if she could, she wasn't strong enough to move it on her own. She was screwed.

A rustle in the bushes caught her attention and Barretta's head snapped up, piercing golden eyes immediately finding where the sound had originated from. A horribly deformed creature burst out of the underbrush, launching itself at her. Barretta bared her sharp teeth and hissed threateningly at the thing. It stopped in its tracks, evidentially wondering what she'd just done, but still wanting to eat her (at least, that's what it looked like). It had probably scented her blood soaked wing. Taking a better look at the creature, she noticed that it was a weird looking mix of wolf and human qualities; it had claws at the sand of its fingers and sharp looking canines thicker than hers, but it had retained the human form that it had turned from.

The closest thing she could compare it to was a werewolf. Despite its wariness, it decided to launch at her again and she yelped as she rolled painfully onto her back, using the creature's momentum against it to shove it off of her. Then she heard a sickening crack and felt something in her back pop. Pain smacked into her like a sledge hammer and she screamed, blacking out.