He wasn't sure when it had begun, he knew only that they were chasing him.  They had been for several years now, gaining in insistence, and though he could run, they would always catch up eventually.  This most recent time, he had only just barely gotten away with his life, demonstrated by the sorry shape he was in.  The woods around him, lush with oaks and pines oddly interspersed, hardly registered in his scrambling attempt to manage a pace faster than a slow crawl.  <br />
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