Jacob felt his stomach lurch and the room grew dizzy. He ran out of the house, his feet pounding the wood floor. He scarcely heard Billy's shout before he slammed the front door.
Rain splattered against his face, the cold wind blowing it against him, soaking him almost instantly. The mud sploshed beneath his bare feet for only a moment before paws pounded it. He raised his nose to the wind. He had her scent.
Trees flashed by quicker than he could distinguish them, the ground a blur beneath his paws. He inhaled deeply again. Roxy. What the-
He slammed into a solid figure, sending him back to the forest floor. Within a second he was hurled against a large oak.
He looked up limply to see Cate's huge green eyes and two golden ones.
"Daddy," Cate screamed, and they were gone.
Jacob tried to get up, and failed. At the speed he'd been going, the impact was too much.
He forced his paws off the ground, and started to trot. Pain shot up his legs in immeasurable strides, and he howled. Had he broken them all?
He clenched his teeth together and continued to limp in a trot. Paw by paw he inched along, trying to ignore the fuzzy corners of his vision.
He started to go a little faster, and then collapsed. He scarcely managed to see bone sticking out of his right leg before the corners of his vision made a sudden lurch, his world collasping into darkness.