The snowy forest was quiet as the grave. Nothing moved except for the snow falling. Moon beams slanted through the bare branches of the birch trees. A figure broke the stillness, floundering through waist deep icy snow and the willow branches. It was breathing heavily and struggling violently to untangle her hair from low hanging birch branches. As she tarred herself free she stumbled and fell face first into the snow. She was too tired to get up and lay there naked in the snow. She was extremely thin, her hip, rib bones, and shoulder blades were sharp protrusions, creating valleys and hollows on her body where there shouldn't be. Her skin was so pale as to be indistinguishable from the snow, but for its translucency showing the blue wed of her veins. Everything about her was pale, her long hair was nearly white and gleamed silver in the moon. Her eyes were a pale green for the moment as she shook and chattered not only with the cold. Her eyes were unseeing but focused; her ears were straining for a sound that hadn't happened yet. They were coming. Not the monsters, although they were searching for her too, no that was not who she sensed coming, the iron shield, the men in the metal bird, the-rain-bringer, the-metal-man, the-girl-that-wasn't, and him. She couldn't describe him he was old and young, he was time, and he was no-memory. She snapped out of her trance only to realize that she was nearly surrounded. 'No!' She was so close, they were so close to finding her, she had to get them to find her, it was supposed to happen. She gathered her strength and stood with her eyes flashing silver. She stood and looked ahead seeing what was yet to be. She blocked the first hit from the guard with the needle, grabbed his gun, and ran towards where they were searching, towards where he was waiting. The goblin men were fallowing, they were gaining ground and taking shots at her which she dodged. She ran her eyes unseeing as she used her gift to keep from being put to sleep. 'So close' she thought when she wasn't fast enough to avoid the dart. She stumbled and screamed out hoping that they would hear her, she fought the goblin men as she fought the oncoming blackness. The last thing she saw was him. She smiled "You're in trouble now" she told the goblin men.