Snippet #1618926

Ella's feet rhythmically pounded against the ground. She couldn't remember how long it had been but every muscle was screaming out in pain as she continued to leap forward through the crippled forests that had been abandoned by the various tree spirits that used to inhabit them many years before. Slipping on an icy rock Ella fell to the ground she couldn't go on like this, the snow had picked up again and she looked up at the sky hoping her father would be there to help her up but he was far behind her fighting those damn Hirules.

He wasn't going to come find her, pick her up, and tell her to keep moving this time. She was on her own. Her fingers raked the cold ground and she pushed herself up. She had to make it to the safe house he could be waiting there for her. Her chest filled with the crisp winter air making her cough with exhaustion. Her father used to run like this for fun?

Finally reaching her feet she took another step forward and managed to pick up the speed again. She had to be close by now there was a pillar of smoke in the distance and what looked like a large eerie building past that, the smoke must be it she thought and built up more speed. Almost there! She surged forward with unnatural speed and finally saw the house, there was smoke coming out of the chimney but there was a huge chunk taken out of it and an abandoned look to it. Maybe she found the wrong place, no, someone was there. She began to slow down her energy drained.

She neared the entrance and began to collapse her vision failing her. Lifting up a sheet that served as a temperary wall she entered to first see the angry young man within her eyes widened in fright and weakly turned to run, it was another one of them. But she couldn't run she couldn't see, her hand slid down the sheet as she fell to the ground.

Ella was out cold.