I run so fast that the wind is stinging my eyes as I go. I have no idea where I am going or what I should be doing other than running away. I dash between the trees as I run. I look back for a second and trip, slamming to the ground hard, smashing the left side of my face on a lifted tree branch, knocking the wind out of me. I gasp for air and yell at myself to get up and keep going. I am so exhausted that I can not make my body move, panic begins to set in.
"I know I heard something! This way!"
Shit... who is that... s**t, s**t, shit...
"Wait... is that the lady from the council." I hear a voice say and I breathe a small sigh of relief that I think the guards have found me. "Ma'am, are you okay?.. Ma'am..."
I force my eyes open, in my exhaustion, and look up at two men in uniform. "Fa
