Leo POV
I froze and stared bug eyed at her. My Heart beat so fast it probably broke my ribs. She stepped closer, that's when something glinted in her hand from the last rays of the disappearing sun.
A dagger. I didn't have a weapon to defend myself with and it would be useless to try if she was as good as the other girl.
Without even thinking about making peace I bolted.
I had to get back to my glade!
Right. Left. Left. Right.
I turned randomly down each upcoming passage, unsure of which direction I was going and forever fearing that I would once again run down a dead end.
But still somehow hoping I would make it back.
I could hear her breath, sometimes close, sometimes far and sometimes not at all. I could hear her feet hit the ground in a consistent thud, thud. Not once did I hear her footfalls lose pace or fall out of rhythm.
I urged myself to move faster and faster until the ivy covered walls were an indistinguishable blur. Now the only sound I heard were my feet thudding on floor, my heartbeat throbbing in my ears and my heavy breathing.
Keep going!
Down more corridors. Legs screamed, head throbbed, lungs burned and muscles ached but I kept moving.
I was faster than the girl. That was clear. I thought I would of lost her but somehow she stayed on my tail.
Then, at last, I turned down another corridor and I saw it.
My glade.
With new found energy and rekindled hope I dashed forward. With an earth shattering boom the doors shuddered and began to close, but it didn't matter to me. I was already through, and somehow I knew the girl had made it through as well.
"GIRL!" I yell.
No one seems to have even noticed my arrival.
"It's a girl! There's a girl! HELP!" I holler over and over again.
Many eyes turn my way and many mouths gape. The guys are completely dumbstruck and do nothing to help me or restrain the girl. SMACK!
I turn around violently to see the girl sprawled on the ground, a big red lump already forming on her forehead, an oblivious boy holding a rather thick log stood over her. Instinctively I tensed up then rushed towards her, shooing the boy, Gally, off. I scooped the poor girl in my arms and ran off towards the homestead, to the medjacks.
Strange how I before I wouldn't have cared if she got squished between the walls and now I was carrying her in my arms, off to save her.
