#blindfoldcd (caspian)

[hyperbloomed]

plotted starter for @blindfoldcd (caspian)

It had taken three days to find her way out of the ruin. Not that the girl didn't know the way by this point - she had counted going into the ruin at least seven times at this point, maybe more - things had started to blend. Everything felt fuzzy inside the walls and inside her. The first time had been STRANGE, like there was something...She could never figure it out. It was like she wasn't herself for a little bit and then suddenly everything felt fine again.

None of that mattered. Her father had disappeared.

She thought he had gone back out and had waited for him patiently as he had asked. But then he never came back. And she waited. And finally she couldn't wait any longer. Behind her he had locked everything and three days had been the time it had taken her to figure the puzzles out on her own.

Now all of that seemed far away. She had exited the ruin only to find people waiting for her - people that claimed they were her father's friends. People that wanted to take her far away.

She ran.

Right into someone else on the road.

"Sorry sorry sorry," the child gasped out, half in tears as she picked herself off the ground. She cast her glance behind her at the closing pursuit and whined, burying her head in her hands. She wasn't going to get away from the Snezhnayans.