The Fall of the Dieties - Mindfreeze

There was not a long distance between the mind and body, the body and mind. When one was wounded, the other was greatly affected. The mind can tease the body, send seizures to the brain and cause the heart to skip even when the heart is perfectly, physically healthy. Mind over matter is not simply an idea by Mao Zedong; it is a truth to life.

Her mind was frantic so her body soared. The reaching arms of the trees struck her, but her mind was ahead, searching through the dense forest for the God that controlled the very Earth. Blood fell down her coat, making the bay of it appear to be darker, more sinister. Her eyes kept rolling and foam poured from her mouth; she was a sickening sight.

Something crashed behind her and her legs pumped with more ferocity. A strange gasping sound came from her usually placid and focused lips. There was nothing to her that suggested her wisdom and cunning, only that she was closing the distance between her and the one other being that meant more to her than her duty of the Gardens, Brighton.

A tree fell to its death and Elyria screamed. Her head pumped like a working piston as the surroundings blurred around her and she felt her throat start to close. Tears streamed down her face. She would be too late. She would not be able to warn Brighton.

She had no idea that Brighton already knew.

The thudding of her hooves became more shrill as the ground below her became frozen and instantly, she was sent careening into the thick underbrush just as it turned into a very solid group of thorns. She screamed.

Panting, Sirenne heard the cry and her exhausted body was stretched to its last limit as she chased the thing that brought down the Temple of Water. The frozen branches crumbling but some of them managed to tear into her soft flesh, but she kept moving.

By the time she found Elyria, the light had dimmed in the eyes.