Hecate and Minerva

Two young elven women flee through the trees of the Murkwood, pursued by men with daggers, hatchets, and obvious ill intent. The women are wearing expensive riding gowns, ripped and stained from fleeing through the woods on foot.

Someone! the older of the two women shouts into the woods in desperation, Help us! Anyone!

The men surrounding them laugh cruelly in response, and the younger woman whimpers in fear.