The sound of her bare feet pounding the forest floor as she ran was hardly heard beneath the pounding of her temples. She was breathing heavily as she hurried to her unknown destination.<span style="font-style: italic">Anywhere, anywhere but back there</span>she thought as she ran. Her once pristine white gown was in shreds and flew limply behind her. Her soft, white wings, like that of birds' wings, were scorched and hurt terribly, yet she continued on, never ceasing her brisk pace.<br/><br/>She wished to look back, to see if her pursuers were still behind, but she willed herself to not attempt it. Desire, however, quickly overruled her commonsense and she glanced back, for only a moment. Nothing but the trees. She smiled slightly, but she knew she wasn't out of the woods yet, in a manner of speaking.<br/><br/>Suddenly,<span style="font-weight: bold">Thud!</span>, she ran into something. She fell back on her rear, accidentally sitting on her wing, which shot a burst of pain through her. She looked up at the figure which she had bumped into, and attempted to ward them off.<br/><br/>"Please, don't hurt me!" she cried, never being the type to be hurtful, but this person scared her. The last time she saw a human, which was also her first, they turned out far more horrid than she had anticipated...