<strong>Snow White</strong><br/><strong> The Dark Wood; the Kingdoms of Ever After</strong><br/><strong>Tagging: The Woodsman </strong><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://data.whicdn.com/images/692251/sexy_brancadeneve2_thumb.jpg)</div>Winter Mane and Snow White’s progress through the Dark Wood had slowed to a trot as they picked their way along the twisted path that lead through the forest. The last time that she had traveled to Belle’s castle path had seemed so much wider the wood light and airy now it seemed as if the trees were crowding the path; the whole wood seeming to be overgrown, somehow…despoiled.<br/><br/>The white mare paused as wolf howls broke the eerie silence of the forest. They sounded far away…Snow shivered as she hoped that they would stay that way. Winter Mane resumed its trot along the path the horse clearly on edge as much as Snow White.<br/>Snow’s cerulean eyes darted from side to side as she tried to watch everywhere at once her pale hands clutching the hose’s long silky silver white mane. She was sure that she had seen some…thing moving deeper in the trees. She hoped that it was just her imagination, just shadows in the dark, but something in the back of her mind kept telling her it wasn’t.<br/><br/>“We will be alright once we make it to Prince Adams and Belle’s castle.” She said softly as she patted the horse’s neck to calm it and herself.<br/><br/>The path ahead forked the right looked wider and from what Show White remembered was the way to the castle. The sudden sharp creaking startled both the horse and princess as one of the twisted trees seemed to lean over towards them, claw like branches reaching out. Snow screamed as Winter Mane broke into a gallop the lunging tree crashing into the path behind them as it fell. Another tree creaked beside the fleeing pair the sound their only warning as another tree groaned falling close the white mare. Winter Mane managed to dart to the side avoiding the hurtling tree and snapping branches catapulted bits of wood and earth at them, stinging as the horse reared.<br/>Snow was too terrified to scream her eyes wide as another tree toppled before them. Winter Mane wheeled to the left; the Princess barley hanging on as the horse galloped down the narrow pathway; more branches clawing at her and the fleeing horse; tearing at her cloak and dress, slashing crimson cuts into Winter Mane’s ivory flanks. The thunderous crash of the tree behind them urged the pair onwards deeper into the twisted Dark woods and unknowing right to the waiting Woodsman.<br/><br/>Snow caught her breath just as she looked up her azure eyes wide with fear; the world seeming to suddenly move slower. A dark shape loomed in the branches above the path, huge, man like. She screamed again as the dark shape pounced, right at her, the moonlight glinting off the edge of a massive ax before everything went black…<br/><br/><br/>