I was running. From what? I knew well enough what, but I still wasn’t going to be stopping anytime soon.
Can’t stop, must keep going... Just keep running
I felt my lungs start to burn from lack of oxygen as I heard an inhuman screech close by, jumping over a downed tree. I shot a quick glance behind me only to see a pair of angry looking, glowing yellow and bobbing behind me, which drove my legs to carry me faster than I’d ever thought possible. To my left, I noticed light coming not too far from the edge of the forest, long ago forsaken by the Gods, I found myself running through.
Not too far left, just a bit further...
I ran up another downed tree, leaping from it to a rock to the left of it, and slid down the other side of the rock. The ground came rushing to me faster than I anticipated, and I tumbled as my feet hit the moist ground, landing flat on my face. I rolled onto my back and pulled out my dagger, scanning the area for any signs of movement. Seeing none, I leaped to my feet, then turned and took of sprinting in the direction of light coming from beyond the forests edge. Another inhuman screech from close by.
By the Gods, just let me get out of this fo-
From my right, the creature I was running from pounced at me, knocking my dagger from my hands, and me off my feet and into a rock, some 5 feet in front of me to my left. Gasping for air, I rolled onto my front and waited a moment for a little air to return to my lungs. After what seemed like an hour, I got to my hands and knees, only to have a foot of some kind driven into my stomach, lifting me from my hands and knees and throwing me 3 feet onto back. To my right, I heard a bloodcurdling screech, and the sound of bones popping and cracking. I looked over in time to see the creature morph into a man, who picked up my dagger and slowly walked over to me, studying my dagger as he did so.
If you don’t see this, I’m going to kill you...
As I jumped to my feet, my entire left forearm started to glow blue, and as I pointed it at the sky a stream of pale blue light leapt from my hand and into the night sky, lighting the forest around me and my attacker, his eyes wide with alarm. Then the glow on my forearm started to fade and I lowered it, and shit a glance at my attacker. Then he did something completely unexpected; he threw my dagger at me with blinding speed. I did have enough time to react, and the blade pierced my chest, an inch or 3 above my heart. I staggered back against a tree from the force of the hilt of the dagger hitting my chest, and just stared, wide-eyed at the gold, leather bound handle protruding from my chest. As I fell to my knees, and as all feeling started to leave me, I saw out of the top of my field of vision an arrow go flying straight through the side of my attackers head, causing him to fall straight onto his side. Then my vision started to fade just as my companion rushed to me, and pulled the dagger out of my chest.
“Come on, ya can’t give up on me now!” she said as she started wrapping a bandage around my wound. “Gotta get your ass to a healer!” Everything then faded into nothing and all feeling left me as she picked me up, and took off running towards the little village of