Blackfoot Forest take these crumbled hopes, etched with tears

she bolts from the trio, tearing out of the valley as her head mists over with fear.  yet instead of going to wapun meadow where she is familiar, where she is expected, she veers straight into the cover of the forest she'd had yet to expore.  her breaths come shallow and fast, and she wants to stop and catch her breath but she hears the heavy, wanting footfalls of @Xan close behind.  and all she knows is that he is angry.

and she is scared because oh, she does not want to feel his teeth ripping through her skin.  she is afraid that if she stops he will hurt her... or he will be driven by mad desire and dominate her, shielding his loins from the biting cold with her own tender flesh while their union becomes a struggle for power and survival.  and she thinks it is the latter she'd be able to stand the least.

but at last one of her paws hits a patch of ice, and the dark-furred girl goes skidding wildly across until she tumbles to a dazed stop, thankfully missing the scattered trees.