Kate's focus was interrupted by a piercing scream, that sounded female.
'Swift?' She thought.
Soon after, she arrived at the scene. It was indeed Swift and she was rolling around on the ground agitatedly, paws covering her eyes. Blade kept a distance, but Corinth was closer; observing.
"What's going on," Kate asked.
"It's happening..." Corinth responded.
"I can't see!" Swift cried out, "and my head hurts...ahhh!"
"Hang in there," said Corinth, "only a couple of more seconds."
"What!?" She screamed back, "I can't hear you!"
Then she immediately sprung to her feet stiff and unmoving.
"What's happening!?" She wined, her eyes darting about.
"Three..." Corinth counted down, "two...one."
Shockingly she passed out on que.
"One down, four more to go." Corinth said helping Swift up as she regained consciousness, "how do you feel?"
"Alright," she replied, rubbing a paw on her head, "I guess."
"Well then," Corinth began, "now that's all out of the way, find your sin and you will be free."
"Oh, well that's easy," Swift replied reluctantly, trotting over to Blade and giving him a whack across the muzzle.
"OW!" He yelped in pain, "what was that for!?"
Then without warning she literally began to glow, starting off as a dim blue growing to a bright cyan, also unnoticeably levitating a few inches off the ground in the process. Minutes later the light show was over and Swift was back on the ground but seemed a little dazed.
"How do you feel now?" Corinth questioned her.
"Better, but a bit dizzy," she replied, "No, no actually...I feel awesome!"
She then sprinted off and lept around in joy, laughing and playing; shouting "i'm free!" Every now and again.
"Hmm, who would've known?" Corinth said to himself, "her sin was Wrath."
Swift River's merriment fueled celebration came to an end soon enough due to exhaustion; Kate and Blade already withdrawn from the area during the event. Afterwards she approached Corinth who was just about to leave himself.
"Does this mean I can leave now?" She asked him.
"No, not yet at least, until everyone else is relieved of the hex." Corinth responded, "We're still in this together you know."
"Wait, what!? That's not fair." Swift replied.
"Of course, to them its not fair if I allow you to leave."
She scoffed.
"We came together, we leave together." Corinth concluded.
Blade was now at entrance Light's pit to give him; well, what he assumed Light would consider good news regarding his condition.
"Hey buddy..." He said through the branch bars to no response, "Swift, she's um, I mean it happened to her."
Blade noticed that this might've gotten Light's attention, because he heard movement inside.
"Yep, she's done, I guess now you can ask her out without having to worry about your throat getting torn open." Blade said jokingly, "Well, that's all I wanted to tell ya. I'll see you soon...I guess."
"Wait..." Replied Light's raspy, tense, voice.
"Huh."
"Look, i'm s-sorry about w-what happened.."
"No man it's alright, I understand." Blade responded sympathetically, "we're still friends though right? Right?
"Yeah, friends." He replied in confirmation.
Kate was inside her pit, of course envy was on her mind, but it gave her hope, hope that Corinth wasn't lying after all. Nevertheless, by some sort of miracle, she fell asleep with ease and drifted off into the dream realm.
A light, it was very bright, so bright that Kate could barely shield her eyes from it. As a matter of fact it engulfed her, until it all faded away into what seemed like a scene. A forest maybe, near a grass plain.
"Is this a dream? What is this? Where am I?" Kate questioned, looking forward to someone or something to answer.
Then a unfamiliar greyish wolf appeared right next to her, or he might've been there the entire time. Soon after, a tanish adolescent wolf pup came out of the brush and approached the grey wolf.
"There you are son." Said the grey wolf, "where is your sister?"
"I dunno?" The pup replied.
The grey wolf looked at pup in disappointment, "What did I say about losing your sister Ashton?"
"Um..excuse me, but who are you two?" Kate tried to interrupt, but they didn't hear her or even notice her, as if she wasn't even there at all.
Ashton sighs before answering, "If we are going to play, we have to stay together."
"Exactly, you know very well that her impairment makes it dangerous for her to be alone, now go find her." The grey wolf replied sternly.
"But dad, just because she's deaf doesn't mean she's blind." He whined back.
"Ashton." The father responded, giving him a look, but he did as he was told and trotted back off into the forest.
The light now started to fade back into the scene, even brighter than before, ending the dream.
1 Week 1 Day
Kate opened her eyes to the morning beams of light as they leaked inside of the pit. She strecthed a little and waited patiently until her bars were removed.
"That was strange," she said to herself, emerging into the day and walked to center field where it looked to be a bit of commotion, and for good reason. Light was there and he appeared lively and energetic.
"Another one." Kate said.
"Yep," Blade responded, "Corinth said it happened to him over night, while we were sleeping."
"But, how?"
"Simple," Corinth responded, walking over to them, "he uttered one short phrase, 'I'm better than anyone' Pride of course."
"But wouldn't that be a lie." Kate implide.
"Not exactly, because the sin itself wouldn't be a lie in his case."
Kate sighs.
"Don't worry Kate your time will come. Is there something on your mind?" Corinth questioned.
She then looked at the wolf with concerned eyes, "Actually, yes..."
