Stone Circle and I know the love you showed me came

Backdating this to the 11th! For an explicit list of injuries, refer to previous thread here, tagging @Gunnar and @Bjarna for visibility, let’s get cracking

Also, Aquillius is alone! He’s just hallucinating/paranoid!

Two days.

He had run for two days, not sleeping, desperation burning into fever, exhaustion bleeding into delusion, his face matted with tears and saliva alike.

It was less running, he would admit later, and more of a frenetic shuffle, like a wounded deer, like a creature being hunted. Aquillius had burned so bright but, like all stars, eventually they burned out. He was little more than feral, barely anything but shaken, burning prey as he tried to outrun the demon and the spider.

They dogged at his heels. With every step he made, they made two, they toyed with him, laughing ghoulishly in his ears, taunting him, but never hurting him. He screamed at them to stop following him, begged them to, but they never did. They just kept pursuing, that non-wolf and that spider, pursuing him, driving him onward, laughing laughing laughing please stop!

The sun had just barely begun to rise when he stood, exhausted and lean with hunger, burning with fever, shaking with the effort it took to remain standing. His eyes were huge and rolling, and he skittered like a spooked colt as the spider came closer, whispering of divinity.

Leave me be-! He bellowed at the spindly creature, shaking, shaking, shaking. The demon clattered closer, clacking its ivory teeth. Aquillius took a wild swing of teeth at the twisted reflection, but it only cackled and weaseled from his strike.

Tears, again, streaked down his cheeks. He couldn’t land a single hit on the demon or the spider. He could barely even take another step, fueled only by a single, all consuming panic, the same panic that causes a cornered rat to bite. The knowledge that to stop would be to die, that to die you must go out fighting.

Aquillius gulped in air like it was a finite resource, shaking shaking shaking as he took a step back from the demon and the spider.