Hunted

Elise feels like she’s been hit by a heavy boulder; her labored breathing turns calm the moment she begins to regain consciousness.

Gone were the stone walls and iron doors she was kept in to hold her; now she was looking at the sky and stars above.

Her body feels itchy on the dewy grass she is lying on. It takes a moment for her to push herself up from the floor; every movement makes the grass crunch under her body. She groaned from the pain and her sore arms.

Her head still felt a bit foggy. She steadied herself with the bark of a tree she saw, leaning over it, confused and panicked. She tried to navigate where she was. “What in the moon?” she called, still groggy from the sleeping smoke."where the hell am I?"

She freezes as the memory returns to her mind. She recalls what happened back before she fell unconscious and how Kaide and Alvira once again used their dirty tricks to get her, and this time she’s taken to the middle of nowhere.

She feels the cold shif