Audrae chuckled at the mousey little Sev'ryn hunter before her. "Secrets of any kind have value. Speak to people, get them to share information about where they come from, what they're doing... And if a choice bit of intelligence should fall into your lap, concerning your fair, ahem, village, then all the better to whisper it to the Iyo. Until that time, I shall be watching."
And so, just as abruptly as the Mistress of Shadows appeared to Tor'ree, she was gone in a whorl of shadow. Slowly, the darkness of the night receded, and the sky was showing more blue than black above the canopy. All around Tor'ree, the Iyo's eyes reopened as they began floating around her, flying beyond. She could feel her wolf spirit's presence approaching. But instead of those beautiful blue eyes she'd become so accustomed to, she saw a pair of crimsons.
"Tor'ree, is that you? It's... yes it must be you, but your eyes. They are red? Oh... My? They are all red!"
"Tor'ree... Can we go home now?" The wolf rubbed up against her leg, the fur feeling much the same as it had, but somehow colder. As if it'd just run a brisk jog in freezing weather.
The rest of the way home, the red-eyed Iyo spread throughout the forest, and populated every nook and cranny in the village. People would find their Iyo coming back to life and repopulating, shining a red light on all the surrounding forest.
