Nicki was starting to realize now she shouldn't have acted stubbornly and should have just listened to Ariana when she suggested that they go back to the academy, to find something for her to fill her empty stomach with and continue with the hunt after that. But of course, she refused to listen and insisted on going ahead with the search and hunt.
Now she was lying somewhere in the middle of the woods, passed out cold with a feeling the reason she blacked out was because she had been starving herself since last night and stressed herself out too, until the little strength she had remaining finally diminished.
The only thing Nicki could pray for was to not end up in a bear's belly or even far worse, something she highly feared since she was so vulnerable and defenseless. The presence or maybe shadow, which she can't really clarify what she saw last in black before her entire world went blank, she was still trying to recall if it left without hurting her or not.