The courier horse rears back in fear, and for one precarious moment you feel like you're about to go tumbling to the ground... but you keep your seat. Though when the horse starts to bolt, you start to wonder if that was such a good idea....<br/><br/>Luckily, Merta seems to be heading deeper INTO the woods, as opposed to running away... but the sound of her hooves thundering through the brush, crushing branches in her wake, certainly eliminates any hopes of sneaking towards your target...<br/><br/>By the time you finally get Merta calmed down, you have lost any semblance of  orientation that you may have had when you set out. Even with the light streaming from above, all the trees just kind of... look the same. And with hundreds of trees spreading off in every direction, it could easily take hours for you to find your way back out of the forest again.<br/><br/>Though getting out probably takes second precedence to avoiding the muffled, gibbering voices heading your way from the west and north... And with a quick look east and south, your options for escape are either a nearby lake, or deeper into the forest to the south...