A scent like pine and spring wafts towards me and I breathe in a full lungful. The female anima inside of me snaps up its head. My blood pounds in my ears and every cell in my body stands to attention as I fix my eye on the spaces between the trees. Shards of sunlight pierce the canopy above, cutting through the air in diagonal slashes, illuminating the space in an otherworldly glow. They walk into the clearing like three kings of hell.
