<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/3GM44y8.jpg)</div><br/>Dodging and weaving from the plants as they snaked about, Erillia had concern only for flight.  Despite being ringed in on narrow path in overgrown jungle, she felt that discretion was the better part of valor.  So with haste but also as much defensive skill as she could manage, she made for the most open spot she could see.  It was unfortunately dead ahead, but there was no escape from behind.  Even as she moved several vines reared back and cracked forwards, striking the ground only inches from where she stood, and had been standing but a single breath before.  Her agility served her well, even in her current weakened state, and she managed to avoid the whipcrack strikes of the vines as the slashed the air and ground about her.<br/><br/>She sped forwards, dodging, leaping over vines, and even rolling under one thicker then her torso itself that crossed in front of the path.  She sprung up, dirt and a few small bits of the jungle floor clinging to her damp skin, and pressed on, eager to be ahead of these monstroseties.  For a few heartbeats it seemed as if she had put them behind her, and too her fate seemed to turn as the path cleared slightly and widened, making her progress even easier.  But then a voice called out.<br/><br/><strong>"Hold morsel, I would have words." </strong>Erillia broke into a small clearing as the voice reached her ears.  No trees for twenty feet in each direction, leaving a small clearing full of hot sunlight streaming down to jungle floor.  There in the center stood what appeared to be a woman, though her skin faded from flesh to green and it appeared that she wore clothing made of living plants.  She stood in the center, her feet buried in the rich loam of the jungle floor.  All about the edge of the clearing, woven nets of vines, reminding her more than a little of a spiders web.  The only retreat from this place the path she had just taken, and that heavy and choked with the living vines that sought her.<strong>"You have evaded my grasp only to make your way to the center of my demesnes, and I would know why before I take you and use your body for my purposes."</strong>