Anton finally stopped running, slightly tired. He could see it would be complete darkness very soon and still he had no idea where this so-called safe haven was. Why should he even follow the note? That question had nagged him for the past hour and always he came back to the fact that the Slenderman was watching him and he knew he wouldn't die...at least not right away. And it was indeed the Slenderman. Anton had seen him before he blacked out and no one, not even the most skilled prankster, could induce the terror he had felt.
It was a good feeling, he thought. He usually didn't feel emotions, so this, to him, was an opportunity to meet yet another elusive side of himself. He had really only mastered pain, surprise, and humor with a small adventure into the angry part of himself. He started running again, and as he looked to his left, he saw that he was no longer in sight of the coast, which he had tried so hard to stay by. He wasn't good at staying near the same sight for more than a little while, unless it was a target, alive or not. He just got bored and had to do something else to combat the bore he felt.
He stopped, but only for a second, as he thought he heard a cry...no, a bird's call. It must have been...unless there were more people, which somewhat confirmed his thoughts. "No", he said out loud, "It was a bird's call". Refusing to believe what is would have indicated otherwise, and impossible to track over that long of a distance at which he heard it, he continued on his course. Out of sight of the shore, but still being able to find it if need be, he started thinking again.
How could he kill something like this? Could it even be killed? And what made that noise earlier? So deep in thought about these thoughts and others, he almost tripped over a branch. In fact, he did trip over it, only sticking his arm out and clutching a tree in an iron grip stopped him from landing face-first into the ground. This was annoying, he thought. It wasn't the first time he had thought that about this predicament, and it wouldn't be the last.
He heard a slight noise and immediately dove under a tree trunk that luckily happened to have an open side facing towards him. Heart beating at a somewhat astonishing rate, but too utterly curious to jot that down in his memory, he turned to look at what made the noise. A squirrel quickly climbed a nearby tree as he got up again. "Well that was overreacting", he thought, but still, it pays to be prepared. He took off running again and had run for about two and a half hours total in that same somewhat straight line when the sun reached the point where the trees blocked all of it's light.
He had failed to get to the safe haven before dark, but he would run through the night and he wouldn't stop until he found it. Another noise had him diving behind a rock, rolling expertly back onto his feet to peer out into the darkness. He saw someone walking. His heart froze. He could clearly see there was someone approaching his hiding spot. He didn't even breath. He calmed considerably when he saw the lack of tentacles on the man, for that was indeed what it was. A man. Although impossible to see his face and expression, he knew, or at least hoped, that this person was here because of the same reason he was. He thought about what to do as the man walked past the rock. He would follow him, he thought. He would make sure of his intents in the morning, when he could properly see the man, and then, and only then, would he reveal himself. If this one was not on friendly terms with the rest of humanity, somehow working with the Slenderman, if that was possible, then he would not hesitate to strangle him in his sleep.