Blackfeather Woods even the darkness has arms

relmyna prayed in silent whispers for this nightmarish interlude to end; her body prickled with heat as the hateful brute inched closer to her, near enough for the evoker to take in the scent of his breath, the wet reek of exposed teeth; relmyna saw their knife-edges, and her gorge rose, but still she refused to concede.
dizzily, she wondered what horrible thing she had gotten herself into, but relmyna knew she could not give ground, not to this cur. yet, while her eyes still bored into the dangerous flame of his flatly glittering stare, the evoker could not hide the trembling of her slight body; equally consumed with anger and terror he would find her.