Aelin swore with colourful language.
This was not good.
"You will be coming with me human thing." It said in a deep, hypnotic voice.
Its hideous eyes glanced up at the other spiders around her.
And they ran. Aelin was, despite herself, impressed at the speed of them. They would certainly be hard to fight with that swiftness. But perhaps it was the thought of their lives on the line that pushed the wind on their heels.
Suddenly alone, she turned back to the beast and looked it dead in the eyes. She decided that something poison spitting spiders were afraid of, she probably should be too.
And then she realised that the messenger spider had not returned.
Gods, they were fast. Aelin was sprinting after tha gigantic spider, that had beckoned her to follow and set off at a pace she had no chance of matching. She had no idea how they manouvered themselves through a forest as dense as this, but that wasn't the main thing on her mind as her heart raced. She couldn't keep this up for much longer, even in her Fae form. The spider was going in and out of her vision, just too far away and she realised it wanted her to be tired. It could have just as easily walked to wherever it was they were going.
The thought didn't sit well with Aelin, and she stopped to catch her breath, panting and clutching a stitch in her side. The spider was nowhere to be seen, but she was sure it would find her again. There was a small stream trickling past about a hundred metres away, that she couldn't have possibly heard without her fae hearing. She jogged over to it and dipped her hands into the freezing cold water that she realised must have melted off the mountains and trickled down to here. She was fairly certain that it was going to start snowing soon, and she wanted to have plenty of cover by then and a nice hot fire to snuggle down next to. There was a lightness in her backpack though, that reminded her that she didn't have much food left, nor Damaris to give her comfort. She would have to remember to pick it up on her way back.
