She struggled in the immovable grip of the large stranger. Her muffled cries of fear could not be heard however and she felt a sharp stinging as he slammed her to the ground. Emily groaned softly, she had landed squarely upon a rock and the breath had been slammed out of her lungs. She had only brief seconds to gaze at her attacker, a menacing creature wearing some sort of mask. She felt a blood curdling scream building in her lungs but then pain like nothing she could have ever imagined hit her in a tidal wave and everything went dark.<br/><br/>A few minutes passed before Emily started to gain some sort of consciousness. Her hands twitched as they lay limp on the forest floor and she attempted to open her eyes. For just a moment she thought perhaps she had simply tripped, fallen, and dreamed of the horrible pain but then it came flooding back with a vengeance.<br/><br/>Adrenaline pumped wildly through her veins and she shot up from the dirt frightened that she could not see. Her hands both automatically reached toward her face, somewhere in her mind she knew what she was to discover. Her fingers felt muscle, clotting blood, pouring blood, everything but skin. Where was her skin?<br/><br/>Jumping up she ran in no particular direction, now totally terrified and out of her mind. The screams she had yet to let loose began to build and when the realization that her face was truly gone hit her she howled out a blood curdling scream that could be heard for miles. She stumbled and tripped falling and jumping back up over and over again.<br/><br/>Her strength would not last long however, she could feel the blood pouring from her wounds and knew she did not have long. Blood filled her mouth and she choked as she cried desperately for Wade. Falling to her knees she screamed and screamed begging for help but there was no help to come.<br/><br/>The forest spinned wildly around her and she gurgled and choked as she crawled forward, desperate to find Wade.