Hesitantly, I look back towards the lifeless wolf with tear-filled eyes as Aubrey’s body lies on the ground, my own paralysed with guilt while I stand frozen to my spot as my mouth opens and closes without making the faintest of a sound – almost as if my voice had been immobilised, horror-stricken and preventing me from making a noise. Remaining stuck within my blameful thoughts, I try to make sense of what had just transpired while I struggle to comprehend the bitter reality that I have just taken someone’s life. Did that really just happen?
I stumble backwards unsteadily; my stomach twisting into knots as I hold down the rising bile crawling its way up my throat, burning my neck as I repress the urge to vomit and purge all the bad energy I harbour inside. With my vision beginning to blu
