Haunted Wood If you build it, he will come

Ooh, thanks for the excellent thread (both of you)! :)

She thought she heard a scuffle behind her, yet Wildfire didn't dare look back. She put every once of her energy into her escape, zooming back into the caldera's actual zone and somehow managing not to tangle her legs. She didn't stop running even when she reached the caldera's foot, nor did she let the incline slow her down. Wildfire only came to a stop when she reached the safety of the rendezvous site, on the opposite slope. Heart thundering and breath ragged, she slumped into the grass.

She remained oblivious to her savior. Wildfire only knew that she had somehow outmaneuvered Sebastian's "evil twin" and that she was now safe. Perhaps running away was not a dignified, Warrior-like thing to do but she had escaped with her life, hadn't she? She licked her chops as she waited to catch her breath, feeling a sense of pride growing within her. She had been confronted with pure evil and had gotten away without so much as a scratch. She hadn't let him have the satisfaction of her fear, either.

Wildfire rolled onto her stomach with a long sigh. Would she tell her parents about the altercation? Would that just worry and upset them unnecessarily? Or would they be proud of her for getting away? She would have to consider it carefully. She was an obedient girl, yet she was a growing one too and she was beginning to realize her parents didn't (need to) know everything. She didn't need to go crying to them about every bump in the night or evil dude in the woods. She was a big girl now and she could look after herself. She had just proved it.