Hildegunde's head snaps back at the scream. Her eyes widen. Time simultaneously moves too slow and too fast. Her heart thumps hard in her chest, blood rushing in her ears. 

[b][color=007236][i]Run. Save yourself.[/i][/color][/b] Her own inner voice. Every fiber of her muscles cries out in solidarity. 

And yet something nagged at her. A growing consciousness, those little white specks of light that Ciara hungered for? Or perhaps just guilt at the idea of being responsible, even if only in part, for else's corpse in the woods once again.

She reassesses her position in that split seconds. Their pursuer is gaining speed. Could she even manage to outrun them at this point, Chloe or no Chloe? The rebound on Chloe's end didn't inspire much confidence either in how much longer her own might hold.

[b][color=007236]"Shut up,"[/color][/b] Hildegunde hisses, which was probably a mangled attempt at urging her to save her breath. As she does, she dashes towards Chloe, focusing. Pulling on the air, then the ground. The earth surrounding Chloe would dip and rise, cobblestone tumbling away in wake of dirt and debris, roughly in the shape of a C formation, trying to pack itself solid. At the open end stood Hildegunde, back to the half-elf.  By no means the sturdiest of barriers, but Hildegunde doesn't have much to work with - or much time to think things through.

Breathe. Focus. She still has a bullet left. She is a hunter, damn it. Whatever was aiming at her, if it were of flesh and blood, was just as vulnerable as she was. 

She just needed to spot the thing. And if she doesn't?

If she doesn't... 

She unsilences her rifle and gives her Adapa a command, sending a brief, scattered message out to all her contacts.

[i][b][color=007236]Forest. Help.[/color][/b][/i]

It was a long shot, but she tried.

She peeks over the dirt tower and straight ahead at the enemy, eyes narrowed. Looking for any inkling of a paw, the wagging of a tail, the glint of fangs. Something, anything, for her to latch onto the entity that pursued her.

Only then could she identify a target.

[@Psyker Landshark][@Estylwen][@AThousandCurses][@Nanaya][@ERode]