It was cold. It was so cold, and Imliss was gone, and she was so tired...
She closed her eyes.
She hadn't been expecting to open them again.
I'll be there as soon as I safely can.
...How badly do you think everyone's going to react to the werewolf thing?
I mean, the worry'll be that somehow the Enemy can track you or hijack you? But we want you back, we'll figure out a way to check that it's safe.
Okay, good.
Getting savaged by wolves the size of Huan was one of the top ten worst things that ever happened to me, plausibly top five, and adding insult to injury by having everyone have to tiptoe around me lest I suddenly get hijacked...