I cursed myself for being stupid, but I didn't have time to wait around here and freak out.

I could already hear the prisoners coming running, like moths to a flame. Make any noise and these damned prisoners will come pooling to it faster than you can say 'I'm fucked'. I needed to move, and fast.

I pulled myself up a tree just in time to see one of the more unfortunate prisoners arrive. Thrido, the cannibal. She was short, and her body was hunched over like her back was broken, her hair greasy and sticking to her face like moss.

She had fungus growing on her, and her lips were chapped and torn, with bite marks all over her arms and legs. She wasn't picky about who she ate, even herself if times were hard.

I hate her. She had nearly taken my finger off the first time I met her. I wasn't eager to do it again anytime soon. I stared down, watching as she wrapped her teeth around the swordmaster, tearing and pulling at his skin like a bear to a deer carcass.

I hastily looked away, creeping along the tree branch and jumping across to another tree. I needed to put as much space between myself and this place as possible, before the other prisoners came. Thrido didn't care about me, if she even heard me, because she had three bodies for her taking.

Even so, I heard her grunt and huff as she started to drag the swordmaster through the woods.

It wasn't safe to stay here, even someone as crazy- or, should I say, more crazy than most here, as we were all pretty insane to normal standards - as Thrido knew not to stay so close. The others were closing in.

I just flew through the trees until I was probably a few miles away. I stopped at a big oak tree, where there was a large branch covered in the thick coat of leaves. I would stay here for the night.

I sat down and looked at my ankle for the first time, seeing it swelling and turning an unhealthy shade of red. Shit.

I calmly ripped a piece of my shirt, tying it around my ankle before laying down and sighing.

Damnit, today was not a good day. I reckon I have maybe a week before this gets so bad I'll be unable to move around much. Shit, why did I let this happen, this isn't like me, I'm usually so careful-

I closed my eyes and dreamed of a blonde elf, as I had been dreaming of for the past month.

Who he was, and why he was my dreams, I had no idea.