Goddess, the pain. Ariel ran amidst the pain that seized her body. Her limbs were stiff and she found herself crying out in pain with every movement that she made. Though she was out of the pack, she did not stop running or looking over her shoulder as she did. She ran for several minutes that eventually bled into hours, and the adrenaline that had taken over started to wane, leaving her exhausted and extremely slow. Her vision blurred and her muscles screamed at her, begging for rest. The pain in her twisted ankle made running already difficult and it didn't help that with every hop, it felt like her leg was being stabbed over and over. She swallowed, lips suddenly dried and chapped.
She needed water. She needed to stop moving. However, she couldn't. She wasn't far enough from the pack h
