[God Quest] I'll bring you further roses, but it does you no good

ludo Braved the forests, braved the stone Braved the icy winds and fire Braved and beat them on my own Well how about that. The scream that tore from her throat as the hulking feline lunged for her echoed and pierced around the marshes in a way that did not seem entirely natural. Claws found flesh, raking and tearing, and blood gushed and sprayed and painted the lion and its mother with crimson. She struggled in the muck, trapped beneath the beast, green eyes round and frightened and welling with tears. She tried to speak, choking around red, gasping for a breath that wouldn't come. And white hands snatched out of the mud, encircling her, dragging her down, down, down. A bloated face emerged from the deep, peeping over her shoulder to gaze at Remi with a sneer. His father. Then they were gone, dragged out of sight. The bog swallowed them up whole, and silence reigned in its wake.