She's A Demon

de, but I shook it off. Such a thing was surely nothing but

a long life doing a jig with their eyes clos

ound, but was at the bottom of the slope. My f

where my feet had been, that I'd been stan

ling. The world churned around me, but leveled out abruptly

orehead. Oh gods it hurt. I rocked my body until I fell on

ng myself over. Nothing felt broken. I sat up

larbone awkwardly. I fiddled with it until it hung pr

et my bearings.The slope was too steep to clim

p to a certain point and tolerable with deep water, up to

despite my love of the things you could do when you were especially high

was either going left or right. Determined to stay c

rest yet and based on how long I had run f

and with enough time to walk to class with Alex. Looking to the east th

the straightest line through the trees as I could, and sta

om its familiar visitor in me, but it was creepy now, like someone w

together, like I was going further into the forest. I s

ope base and start again. I had been walking in a straight line

half a mile. I scanned the ground. Horrified at wh

I had passed this way. All Clerics were master trackers, bes

at that moment I felt the bitter sting of failure. What I should have don

one up on me, and plunged into the forest wit

, and took a running jump at a broad oak trunk. I reached the lowest branch

my body over the highest bough that would hold m

wispy vapor, and for a few seconds I ch

the cooler days didn't bother me. It was a we

rain, darker than the sky now. They rol

was blowing in. My heart did a jig in my chest, and

eeze was refreshing, and a nice change to the as