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Landfall
Through the trees
Her breathing slowly became deeper as she was forced to continue her journey through the never-ending woodlands slowly closing in around her. A vast expanse of deep greens, purples and bright reds surrounded and confused her, both calming and terrifying in the same breath, offering to engulf her entirely in the blackness of night, allowing her to become one with them.
Hewas following her, always following.
He was real, he was death and he was coming.
From deep within the forest the sickly sweet smell of the unfortunate floated before her, along with the screams of others yet to come. She had watched entranced as it had taken everything she had ever loved, everyone she had ever cared for, stood by and watched as it too every last shred of her sanity and now, despite her best efforts, despite everything it had come back for her. She finally realised that death was ever patient, ever vigilant and always there to seize the moment you fall. No-one can escape death forever. It’ll just keep it’s steady pace and wait for the moment you tire,
But now...
Death had lost its patience.
She was back in this filthy place, it stank of peat and faeces, the trees had slowly thinned and vanished and she found herself sprinting through the bogs of her childhood, disease ridden , plains invested with depraved monsters and brutal men with sick desires. Now it was all coming back, not content with taking everything else they had returned to collect her life as well. She was grateful when the bogs began to fade and before long she was once again tearing through the forest. Blind panic had allowed her to get this far and it would continue to serve her well.
They were behind her, following at a steady pace, the beasts who had taken her mother. She could hear them, they were death and they were coming. The dark moonlit forest began to rush past her so quickly that the bright vibrant colours began to meld into one solid slab of black, she no longer cared enough to distinguish, nor was enough of her able to focus on anything except leaving them behind.
The small part of her that hadn’t been overwhelmed by the panic and the fear of her surroundings tried to focus. It forced her mind to think.
Then the hallucinations began, she could see them up ahead of her. Suddenly she could feel them inside of her, in her head gnawing at the back of her eyes, in her stomach gorging them selves upon her shattered and tender body.
A blood- curdling scream erupted from her mouth as she forced her exhausted form to go faster. By something close to a miracle she was able to maintain this pace for a good few minutes more. Her fear had entirely blinded her now, she saw nothing except a haze of red descend upon her vision, brambles tore at her clothes, branches whipped at her skin and creatures bit at her legs.
A tree appeared to rise out of the red and into her path, but she couldn’t move out of the way and collided with it. Her nose shattered on impact and the blood began to pour down her face. The force of the collision drove her backwards of her feet. Her ears began to ring and her body filled with relief having been given a chance to rest. She knew that there was no getting away now. She had come to the end of her path. She had given him the chance he needed.
Finally she had fallen.
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Eldar 
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