Chapter Two: Escape
He'd no idea how long he'd been running, branches scraped at his face and clothes as he crashed through the forest. He could hear the distance shouting coming from behind him as he ran through the thick undergrowth. He was glad of the adrenalin rush, without it he wouldn't of made it this far, the adrenalin stopped him from thinking, from remembering the burning of Highever, from the sight of his sister in law and nephew laying in their own blood, of how he left his mother and father to die at the hands of that traitorous bastard Howe, promising to find and protect his sister.
He felt his foot catch under a root of a tree; the air left his lungs as collided hard with the ground and begun to roll and smashed his way down the steep hill. He grunted in pain when he eventually came to a stop, his mabari hound Fang ran to meet him, nuzzling his master's face with his wet nose, crawling his way back to his feet he limped further in to the woods.
He stumbled through the forest till the sky was bleached orange with the rising sun. His exhaustion was catching up with him, his steps where becoming more unsteady, stopping to rest he climbed in to a hollowed out oak tree. It didn't take long for the fade to take him.
I know this chapter is a little short but the next chapter is quite long and I'll probably update it a bit quicker. Really I already have the first 12 chapters done but I want to try and keep the updates regular. Please rate and review. Thank you to SnowHelm for his review as well.