Blackfeather Woods No one can save me from myself

The words didn't register but his voice did. They snapped her from her running, so violently that Liri very nearly crashed headfirst into a tree. She drew herself up, heaving with exertion and trembling with fear. 

Liri could only vaguely make out the outline of another before her and mindlessly lunged, the whites of her eyes flashing. She flinched back in time, realizing that it was not a dangerous person before her but a mere child. Even in such a state, Liri could never harm an innocent. 

"Not safe, not safe, not safe."

"The man," she tried, but the words were lost in panting and the spasms that wracked her taught frame. She couldn't even imagine how she looked to the cold, detached boy before her.