[starter for @jasperbuffcheetopuff ]
As much as she’d been thrilled as she’d ever been in her whole life to join that expedition, her big dream sure hadn’t been off with a good start.
First she got separated from the rest of the group, then she’d been attacked and chased by a screaming and hissing flock of baboons and just when she’d thought to be done fore... something had lifted her off the ground and saved her.
She still couldn’t figure out to whom or what the strong arms that had brought her to safety belonged to. She had been to scared to get the immage of her saviour on focus. Assuming that what had swept her off her feet had actually the intention to save her and not something nastier. Of one thing Lapis was sure: she had no intention to stick around to find out.
The second she felt to be free from the grasp and had her feet steadily on a strong tree branch and the creature turned her attention away from her to chase away the remaining baboos, she fled, climbing down the tree and managing to jump and land on a branch of the next one.
She was out of breath, hyperventilating from the rush of adrenalines, her head pulsating painful and limbs trempling slightly from the effort of the climb, her pretty new blue dress reduced to shreads... not that that would have mattered much since she appered to be lost in a deep jungle, alone with every kind of wild animals on the loose and with no protection. Just as she sighed out and concluded it couldn’t have been worse, it actually started raining.
The young woman closed her eyes, taking in a deep breath and biting her tongue, tasting the bitter irony of her dire situation. When she opened her eyes, her heart lost a beat and her breath was caught in her throat, seeing gleaming amber eyes staring at her from the leaves.