Chapter 2

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Pants, thumping and growls could be heard through the woods.

It gets louder and louder until I'm sure that if I turn around, someone or rather something will be there. I quicken my pace until I can't go any faster, my throat feeling like it's about to combust, closing up from exhaustion.

I look behind me and see nothing but a blurry figure. Just as I turn my head forward again, I run throat first into a thick branch. The force of being so abruptly stopped throws me off my feet down on the ground. I cough, trying to get air in my lungs.

As I clutch my throat in pain I hear heavy thumpings coming towards me.
Someone yanks me up by the arm and hauls me behind a tree, trapping me against a strong torso with an arm around my waist. I open my mouth and loudly inhale, taking big deep breaths of cold air.

A loud cracking noise fills the already quiet forest and a hand clamps over my mouth. I close my eyes in fear.
A crunching sound ends the silence and warm air wafts over my brow.

".. What are you doing in my forest."
A deep grumbling voice said.

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