Marked by the predator
gasps as she sprinted through the dense forest, her boots slipping on damp leaves. The moon above cast pale
as c
e unnatural stillness that followed
had been running for hours, her muscles screaming in protest, b
wor
deliberate crunch o
dagger from her belt, her fingers tightening around the worn hilt. Her p
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nged from t
knocking the air from her lungs. She hit the ground hard, the impact r
kicking, but it was us
t-not suffocating, but holding
oice rumbled above her, dar
light, she could see the sharpness of his features, the pi
r had caugh
intention of l