He ran and he ran like hell. His chest burned, his sides heaved, then suddenly his paw burned and he fell...

Glitch stumbled over himself and rolled head over tail to slam stomach first onto the ground. There was a brush of something slimy, then his tail... it was on fire!

Yelping the boy screamed and screamed, his pitches rising and rising and never falling as the pain burned him from what felt the outside inward. His fur was gone and his skin was exposed... This hurt just as much as the time they poured that liquid all over him and he burned and burbled to death... He turned into nothing more than a liquidy puddle...

Screaming still Glitch takes his paws and slams them on the exposed skin, slapping at it as if trying to put out a fire, there was laughter behind him... Loud and barking... He felt like it was right behind him, like the monster was looming...

He hopped to his feet and suddenly, with all the panic he felt, he launched himself forward. He flung himself through that rocky shoreline that housed that poisonous purple liquid, he could hear rattling and clanking of chains as he shuddered and kept running...

He leapt through the air, flinging his body in a soaring motion, flying as far as he could, there was a soft humming that rose to his ears, a flick of his audits and then... He fell once more...

Flat on his stomach with a gasping Oof... as he tried to draw a ragged breath, but thats when he noticed the soft cool stone against his paw... He looked at the blue glowing stone when he remembered the monster...

Glitch whipped his head around to stare at... Nothing... And he blinked, confused as his chest tried to catch his breath. He rose an eyebrow as he noticed the trail of thick slime leading back into the river... Letting out a puff of exasperated air he breathed in once more and shook himself out as he remembered the burning pain the monster had caused...

Looking down at his exposed skin the boy whimpered as he noted he needed a medic before returning his attention back to the rune...

He felt a slither in his brain, soft words that seemed to caress his grey matter as they floated into one ear and suddenly disappeared out the other. There was a sigh, a reassuring rest now because of the rune and that he was safe...

He sighed as he closed his eyes and placed his chin upon the rune. The boy setteled into the ground as he felt safety and warmth flood over him, leaving the throbbing ache of his tail to fade away into the vibrations of the Rune.