Snippet #1210368

Samantha had stopped walking when she closed her eyes from exhaustion. She rested against a tree, her heart starting to slow down finally from the adrenaline and the fear that had been pulsing through her veins and her temples and her entire body. But then... she heard noises rustle around her and she flinched, jerking one way and then the next. She swallowed thickly as she stood there and then started running again, one noise making her jerk to the right and then to the left as she thought she heard a noise to the north but then it would repeat to the south. When she heard the humming coming from all around her, her eyes went wide as she was shaking and sweat dripped off her forehead, landing on the dead leaves and the cold ground beneath her.

Should she run? All these noises, banging in her ears and shifting her everywhere as her heart started to pound extremely hard again and her flesh grew goosebumps as the song he was humming, the rune, rang around in her head, her mind, echoing over and over as she felt her heart pump even faster. She stayed still, everything seeming to move faster and faster around her, like a spinning vortex appeared in front of her. She had gripped a tree with her back against it, almost like she was afraid the invisible vortex she thought she saw was going to suck her into it.

She finally dropped to the ground, sitting against the tree as the vortex was gone and she kept her eyes closed, breathing heavily as more sweat dripped down her throat and her forehead, part of her hair matted with sweat as her sweater became hotter on her body. She didn't know where in the woods she was... she was lost now. She kept her eyes closed, her body shaking slightly from all the confusion and all the fear. She felt like she was going insane.