event 01 ; beastly encounters.
After being kidnapped and brought to a facility against her will and being paired with someone she didn't know-- who she still hadn't met, well, needless to say Ava wasn't expecting it to get any worse. How could it get worse?
Obviously, it could.
When the gate had gone down, she had ran. Any chance of escaping, any chance of regaining some normality, she had gone for it and didn't think of anything else. Her choice, of course, had been the wrong one. Upon hearing the voice, seeing the gates return and hearing about the terrors that were surely going to unfold, Ava froze up for a moment. This was turning out to be one big mistake. While it was obvious to her that she couldn't die so to say, the idea of being hunted down didn't exactly appeal to her-- plus, without her partner around, how was she to know how to proceed?
What if they died?
She'd feel the pain of any injury, and pain wasn't something Ava wanted.
So she ran again, holding back any tears that threatened to fall from her eyes, holding in any of the magma that was bubbling to the top of her throat. She'd cause a forest fire at this rate and cause unnecessary destruction all because she was a mess, and she knew it far too well-- a mess with the worst luck in the world, because the minute she thought she was safe, she heard a sound behind her-- a sound of footprints too heavy for a human, and well, the growl didn't help its case. Moving quickly before whatever the beast was spotted her, she peeked out from the ditch she had found and shivered at the golden eyes that stared into the distance.
Was it a wolf? Something like a wolf, at least. The voice had mentioned experiments. What if it saw her? What if it ate everyone? What if she had to walk through it all, all the bodies and the destruction that was surely like her old ho-- no. She couldn't let anybody get near this thing-- even if they were all out for blood, this was too much.
Turning to the other opening in the ditch to find a way out of her predicament, her red eyes caught on an approaching figure, a guy she didn't know, a guy who could be out to get everyone and win this thing, which a rational person would probably hope to achieve. Peeking out from the ditch and hoping he could see the luminescence of her skin, which she prayed he could, she waved a hand quickly before retracting it into her little hiding spot.
"... Psst! H-Hey, d-don't go over there, okay...?! Come over here, p-please. J-just wait... wait until it leaves...!"