Previous the creatures pursuing her are her answer. She has no other choice but to push her already exhausted body onward to the city on the hill. Surely they will tire, she tells herself, a sharp pain in her side like a knife between her ribs from the effort making it difficult to breathe, and… Continue reading

Previous their own volition, as if her body is possessed by a power that is at once both foreign and familiar. It is… strangely exhilarating. Eventually, the wild terrain gives way to tamed, yet unkempt farmland. A dirt path forms, a welcome relief to the woman’s aching feet after the undergrowth, and here and there… Continue reading

Previous as she passes. The hot panting breath of the monster on her heels steadily fades. A scream of frustration echoes through the trees. But she is leaving it behind. Slowly, the nigh on suffocating foliage begins to thin, and, a few strides later, she bursts through the thicket into bright sunshine and open space.… Continue reading

Previous this gods forsaken forest, this is the end. No. In that moment, it is the only word she knows. Whether it is her own determination, or that of the disembodied presence hovering at the back of her consciousness, it saves her — at least for the moment. A surge of energy courses through her,… Continue reading