The leather pod split. It exposed the inside where the body lay. It was no ordinary body. It was the fruit of the fungus. A long sigh emitted from the torn seam, vomiting dark loam onto the forest floor.

Adira was bitten by nature. Not a bite that was fatal; but a bite that awakened her senses to the wonders she'd overlooked her entire young life. But first, she had to transform her mind and view of the