I pushed and I pushed and still, I could hear the mother skotaur behind me.
She was closing in, no matter how rapidly I sped through the forest. It was at that moment that I realized that the inevitable was going to happen.
The mother was going to catch me and tear me apart. Her growls were ominously loud behind me and echoed noisily enough so that it felt like the very ground was quaking beneath my feet.
A keening sound escaped my throat, one of raw terror, and everything inside me burst with adrenaline as I ran as hard as I could. Still, she closed in.
Soon, I could feel her fiery breath kissing the back of my neck. It wouldn't be long now. Odiyen, I pray my death to be swift.
Her snarl rumbled the very marrow in my bones and my foot caught on a tree root that had been hidden by a pile of leaves.
