The first thing Emma could sense was a heaviness on her chest making it almost impossible to get a deep breath.  Slowly her eyes fluttered open to reveal Leon laying across the top of her deathly still.  Then she remembered the horrible man and for a moment, she began to panic, trying to rise enough to look about with huge frightened eyes for her attacker, but he was nowhere to be seen.<br/><br/>Glancing down at Leon's lifeless body, she placed a her hand on the side of his neck and could still feel a heartbeat.  "At least you are not dead, my hero."  She said softly.  There was no other reason the horrible man would have dropped her and not ravished her, unless Leon had intervened.  Slowly, with much effort, she began to wiggle herself free from beneath him.  It took quite a while, his body was so muscular, the weight was heavy.  Finally she was free and stood up, looking around for her basket, she found it off to the side a ways, with more than enough berries, only a third seemed to have been lost.  As she went to pick it up, needing the knife bandages and herbs in case Leon had need of a new a dressing, it was then she saw the man, crumbled beneath a tree, his neck broken.  "How did Leon do that?"  She thought.  Yes, she knew he had to be strong, as she had dressed his leg, it would be impossible not to feel the strength in him.  Every muscle was tight and firm in her hands.<br/><br/>Turning, leaving the scene of death behind her, she returned to Leon.  Kneeling down beside him, it took great effort to turn him over.  How peacefully he slumbered, as if he had not slept in many, many days.  He was breathing, and his wound seemed alright, albeit the blood had started to soak to through the bandages.  But it would hold until they reach her home.<br/><br/>Slowly her eyes wandered back to his face.   He was quite handsome when he slept, she noticed.  Placing a hand on the side of his face, she took a moment to really look at him, touching his face delicately.  She had never meet anyone quite like him before.  Then she began to try and wake him gently.  "Leon, wake up.  Leon?  Can you hear me?  Please wake up, we must get home before the night creatures walk the forest grounds."<br/>