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I was almost in shock when I turned the corner and saw the doors leading to the outside. Finally freedom. As we approached the doors, I saw Nathan type in a code to open the door. Once it was open I nearly ran outside into the fresh air. When I looked around however, I realized that this wasn't the same area Dimitri hadn't taken me before. There were no mazes or flowers. All I saw were plenty of trees and a body of water in the horizon. This must have been a different exit. This confused me. I had thought that we had taken the same route I had with Dimitri but I guess I must have been mistaken.
"Where are we?" I asked Nathan. If I was going to escape from him then I needed to know my location.
"You don't need to know that." Apparently Nathan felt the opposite way.
As Nathan began to walk toward the forest, I tried to access my surrounding as I followed behind him.
"Walk faster." Nathan demanded however his voice seemed a bit shaken. Like he was afraid. At first I thought I was imaging it but then his speed began to increase.
"Wait up." I said struggling to keep up with his pace. "You won't find the Dragonmire girl without me you know." Even before the last words left my mouth, Nathan had already ran back towards me and flung me over his shoulder.
As Nathan proceeded to run with me over his shoulder, it felt as though the world was flashing by. I knew Strigoi's were capable of running at high speeds but this was unbelievable. Soon the running sparked a new reaction from me, nausea. I had never been sea sick or even car sick before in my life but apparent Strigoi running sick was a different story. Suddenly I felt like I was about to throw up and nothing was going to hold it down.
"I'm going to throw up." I screamed.
My declaration brought Nathan to a sudden stop. He stopped so fast that it felt like the front part of my body crash into the back. Over course this is impossible but at the moment my body was telling me different. Before I could even ask Nathan to set me down he had flung me off of him like I was a mosquito forcing me to come crashing into the dirt on my butt. To his misfortunate I decided to just lean over in front of him and throw up. I still had enough time to turn my body into the bushes beside me but after the way he had treated me, I wanted him to see me puke. From the disgusted look on his face, I grew satisfied in my act.
"Now you will walk on your own." He said obviously not wanting me anywhere near him. "Try to keep up."
"I would rather walk." I said. As I began to stand up my hand brushed up against a branch laying on the ground next to me. Suddenly I got an idea. In order to kill a Strogoi you needed a stake. However, I could use the branch I found to incapacitate him. Once the branch hits his heart, he will go into shock long enough for me to get away from him. As I continued to stand to my feet, I slowly tucked the branch in the back of pants and underneath my shirt.
"What are you doing?" Nathan said startling me. At first I thought he had caught on to what I was doing. "We need to move." Nathan said looking around.
As I watched him briefly look around his surrounding uneasily I too started to access my surroundings. As I allowed myself to become more alert, I felt it. The tiny bit of nausea I received when Strogois were around only it wasn't Nathan I was sensing. More Strigois was approaching.
"They are coming for us." I said shocked.
"Yes." Was all Nathan said before turning around and running. Not wanting to face our impending intruders by myself, I followed quickly behind as fast as I could.
As I followed Nathan further into the forest, I realized that we were heading toward the body of water. "Why are we running toward the water?" I asked as I ran behind him.
"Boat." Was all Nathan said. Apparently now that we were being followed Nathan chose to be more cooperative in answering my questions.
"Will it be fast enough?" I asked hoping Nathan would answer this question as well.
I was relieved when he did. "Yes. It is one of Galina best boats."
Knowing that I wouldn't have to go into the water eased my mind. I was a good swimmer but it was spring time and I knew the water would be cold after the long winter. I had heard horror stories about people being thrown into freezing water and only being able to survive for minutes. Nathan was a Strogoi, he would survive but I wouldn't. I also secretly hoped that he had been right about the boat being fast enough because as I continued to follow Nathan I felt the nausea continuing to grow exponentially. The others were approaching fast.
Out of nowhere I felt someone's hand take a hold of my right shoulder and attempted to bring me to an abrupt stop. I was so caught off balance that I flung backwards into them hard 'knocking the wind out of me' before falling onto the ground.
As I looked up at the face of the person who attacked me I was surprised. It was Dimitri.
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