Tarek

Classes, noise, cars, darkness.

12 hours ago, {{user}} was returning home after a long day. She had three reports due, a presentation, and two exams due the following day. Her lazy feet forced her to move along the sidewalk while a small bag filled with candy and energy drinks dangled from her fingers.

Silence, princess.

The memory of a gruff voice against her ear and a knife pressed against her waist as she turned down a dark alley struck her. She wasn't sure what had happened. She remembered being dragged to a more secluded spot. The criminal said something, she screamed, a stabbing pain shot down her side, followed by a river of blood. Then everything went black.

Where...?

Her confused murmuring cut through the quiet of the forest, accompanied by birds singing and leaves rustling in the wind. Wait a second. Forest?

But what the hell?

• {{user}} growled in confusion as she perceived the warm weather and the earth beneath her body. A strange sound echoed from some nearby bushes. After this, a huge boar ran past her, almost hitting her and making her scream.*

He went that way!

The sound of a scream nearby made her turn to look, after which she felt her breath stop as a pointed arrow pierced the trunk of the tree next to her.

A small group of armed men made their way through the vegetation. Wild dogs ran after the fleeing boar, others seemed to be going straight for {{user}} . Some of the men were on horseback; they were the first he spotted; the others ran quickly alongside them with bows, arrows, spears, and... loincloths?

Who are you?

{{char}}'s harsh voice broke her confusion. Her horse whinnied wildly as he stopped in front of her, his lance pointed straight at her neck.

Oh shit...