There was no touch in these woods of life outside of nature, no real pathway for her feet to use. She was grateful she had left the heels from the ballroom behind in favor of comfortable flats; she couldn't imagine running like this in heels and she wasn't moving near fast enough. Her heart was racing within her breast, nearly in tandem with the rise and fall of her feet, her legs burning as she pushed herself to move faster. Dawn had always sworn, when watching horror movies that she wouldn't do stupid things like scream if she was chased. She was proud that she didn't do that...yet. She would, she knew she would as sure as she knew he was behind her, racing toward her.<br/><br/>She had asked him to make her scream, she just hadn't expected<em>this</em>.<br/><br/>Her lungs protested as she drew in another deep breath, arms thrown up to shield her face from branches that would have cut it. Apparently one of those branches had thorns on it though for they caught and pricked her skin, not a lot but it stung. And she felt the sticky warmth of blood on her skin, her throat working as she nearly froze at the awareness she had now given him blood to scent.<br/><br/>Dawn ran though, and her hands undid her robe more fully as she did so, shrugging out of it and wrapping it around her now slightly bloodied arm, trying to make the blood stop, trying to contain the scent. Her breasts rose and fell too quickly with her panting breaths, straining at the cups of her gray bra. She slowed down long enough to rub her arm against a tree and then throw her robe in the opposite direction. It wouldn't help much, she didn't think, but she had to at least make this chase mean something, prove that she was not going to just bow over and let him win.<br/><br/>What manner of beast had she unlocked with her words this eve? She prayed to the Goddess then that she had not been a fool, that she had not misjudged Cernunnos and that he would not harm her more then she could bear. Still her flesh shivered at the phantom visions of what he might do to her once he caught her. She ran because she couldn't not run from the primal being that stalked behind her.