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I̶r̶e̶n̶e̶'̶s̶ ̶e̶y̶e̶s̶ ̶o̶p̶e̶n̶e̶d̶.̶
She struggled to prop herself up, feeling exceedingly weak, like something was missing. Something deep inside herself that usually gave her the strength to move.
Looking around herself, all she could see were trees. She had no memories of how she got here, she had no memories at all. Thinking about what got her here just rewarded her with a flash of a familiar woman looking sad and a spiking pain in her head like someone was trying to cleave it through with an axe as the memory faded back into the fog. Thinking about herself ended in a similar manner and redoubled the pounding in her head, though she did get a name out of it this time, "Aphmau" it felt like something long abandoned but still hers in some way.
So she laid there for an unknowable amount of time, at some point relaxing her arms and letting her head rest on the warm grass, and let the warm sun and the pounding in her head lull her to sleep.
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The next time Aphmau awoke the sun had moved a considerable distance in the sky. She felt the grogginess she always (always?) felt when waking up from a nap but this time she felt like she could move, so she struggled to her feet, began to put one foot in front of the other, and immediately collapsed against the nearest tree.
As she stood there panting she locked eyes with a person hidden between two trees, she would have missed them completely if their green slitted eyes weren't so much lighter than the surrounding foliage.
They stared at each for half a second before the person turned tail and sprinted away.
"Hey! Get back here!" She yelled after him pushing off the tree. Her spark of irritation gained kindling as her request just seemed to spur the person to go faster. She began the chase half expecting herself to collapse at any moment, but from where the emptiness was before came a small trickle of warmth that slowly spread through her limbs soothing any ache or tiredness in her muscles as it travelled.
Where before the person seemed to be too fast to catch up to, now she was gaining inch by inch. Just as she got close enough to see the scuffs on his leather armor he suddenly seemed to vanish in midair.
With her prey gone she slid to a stop. panting as the warm feeling stuttered out leaving pain in its wake. She glanced around to see where that green eyed bastard led her muttering under her breath calling them every mean thing she could remember which admittedly wasn't much.
But she was broken out of her mini tirade by the sight of smoke in the distance. Smoke meant fire, fire means civilization, civilization meant people who might be able to help her. So with that in mind she steeled herself before venturing towards the direction of smoke.
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It felt like hours since she started walking towards where saw the smoke, though it probably hadn't even been five minutes. She'd used up whatever strength she'd regained from her nap in the chase. As she finally broke the tree line setting her eyes on the village, relief flooded through her.
Darkness started to blot her vision as she saw a man in a mask walking towards her, he started to say something though her brain was too tired to decipher it past it being words. It was probably who she was, or maybe how she was, seeing how a run through the woods definitely didn't do her much good looks-wise. The thought made her chuckle between pants before she could stop herself. And when the helmeted man was a few steps from her, the rest of her energy gave out, the black completely covering her vision. Her legs couldn't support her weight, and she was unconscious before she hit the ground.