*William*

William ran. All his senses screamed, begging him to stop and savor the forest, but he wouldn’t. He couldn’t. The muscles in his legs stretched and ached beautifully in a painful sort of bliss. He veered smoothly between trees and leaped around natural obstacles like they were formed around his trajectory rather than the other way around. This was his forest. HIS.

‘Faster,’ he commanded himself, and his body obeyed. He tore through the air so quickly that it ...