Blessing stones

Prologue
Ceili stumbled through the forest she tripped over a root and went flying landing face first cutting her hands and face on the sharp twigs, tree needles, and stones that carpeted the forest floor between the many nobbled roots. Ceili wasted no time getting up for she had no time to waste. Her pursuers were close behind her. Her weave through the trees was the only thing keeping her out of their reach, but not knowing these woods Ceili feared to stray too much from her set direction lest she become lost in the tangles of this unnatural wood. they were catching up to her fast due to the delays from her falls. If they caught her she knew she faced a fate worse then death. She heard one of them moving away no doubt having figured out her coarse of direction thy'ed planed to cut her off ahead. She could be wrong of course, but she doubted it. So Ceili decided it was time, to take the risk. She would have to do the one thing she had hoped to avoid. Ceili turned abruptly changing her course so she headed straight for river village. Her pressures still close behind. Ceili ran abandoning all thought. there was no need to think now this plan was her last hope. There was no way to change it. She would either make it to her destination or she would die. Ceili ,slid on loose earth, ducked branches, dodged arrows and swung around trees. She was breathless but it didn't fase her her feet were badly bruised, but that did not effect her. She was high on Adrenalin as she ran from one kind ofdoom to another.