[Manardariel]

"click-clack. Click-clack" Suprised, Youlielle´s ears picked up the sound of hoofes, clattering along. Hoofes? That meant a rider. Carefully, Youlielle sank a bit deeper in the shadows... she didn´t want to be seen. No rider would let a young, unacompanied girl pass him without asking questions or making comments. And she did not want that to happen.
"You better be carefull, girl. Don´t want to get yourself caught, do you?" She muttered to herself. They said the forest was full of dangers, monsters and even worse creatures. But they weren´t her greatest worry. What she was most scared of by now were people from the city, trying to force her back. But she would never, ever go back to Lake Town. It would be certain death. This journey was dangerous, but it was her only hope for life. She wouldn´t give up.

The hoofes came nearer. She heard voices in a strange, cold language. Youlielle crept away. A warning fear had filled her. This wasn´t a rider from to Lake Town. This was no man at all... suddenly, they were around her. Black figures, everywhere. She broke into a run. More creatures. She kicked, punched, despreatly looking for a way out. Something hit her legs, then her sholder. Searing pain filled her. Darkness...........

When she came to herself again, she was bleeding all over. Her legs hurt terribly. "So you´ve made it, girl. Gone and killed yourself.... " She closed her eyes again. Anything, even death had to better than this. But then, something in her stirred.
"Are you just going to give up? You´ve never given up before." A voice said in her head " Why now?Are you just going to lie down and die?? "
"No way,"she wisperd. "No way...."

[ December 29, 2002: Message edited by: Manardariel ]