Haunted Wood follow alice

Quick lil' post, shouldn't mess things up for Rach. :D

The back of Bazi's neck burned with the effort of carrying her son - something she only became aware of when they had stopped, huddled together in a dark little knot of foliage. To Swift's sobbed fears she could only shake her head, mouth agape around gasp after gasp of close, dank-smelling air.

Slowly, the pain caught up with her. Every muscle ached and throbbed, and she was slowly coming round to the fact that her own face had not escaped Jade Fern Grove unscathed. The tip of Morran's claw - the very same that had gouged out Swift's eye - had cut a triangle of flesh out of Bazi's upper lip. The root of a long, yellowed canine was visible next to pink of a fresh wound, and she had the suspicion that the bear's weapon had done something similar to her ear. The blood had long since stopped flowing, but she could feel the hot ache of exposed nerves near the top of her head.

"They.." she huffed, sagging to the floor next to Swift. Her eyes scanned the dark forest wildly, searching for Allure. ".. they can't.. get in." Exhaustion made her wound quite convincing. If Morran followed them into the forest, it would be the end - and Bazi was simply not ready for that to happen.