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"Don’t tell me you feel threatened by a woman"

"Hey I believe in equality and all that, but there’s no way you’ll pass this"

"Enough talking," snapped Jared at us, stopping still where the trees began A group of vampires – allBy their posture and respectful bow of the head to Jared, I guessed that they were ion

Jared informed us, "Your aim in this task is to reach the end of the forest in the fastest tis you need to know: one, you can’t step on the floor You can use the trees, logs, rocksbut not even once can you step foot on the ground Nuifts, this is all about your strength and speed and agility Yes, before you ask, I do have people watching The third thing you need to know is that you will have so you the entire time If they catch you, task over"

Anxious with anticipation, I watched as each vampire took their turn at the task Each had a ten second head start before a ion was on their tail Most see they weren’t first caught Of course, fro It wasn’t until they returned through the forest that Jared would be told of the applicant’s success, or lack thereof

Standing there waiting for y as I had no viehat the forest was like inside Worse still, the oris There was no way to outrun a Pagori unless you were one yourself Sure Sventés were stronger and faster than the fittest huth and speed There was one thing, however, that could go in ility Sventé vale cat and if these legion side Sventés then they ht not be prepared for it So if I tapped into that and also ood use of my head start there was a chance – I didn’t like how sli

Was it any wonder that I was left till last to do the task? Or that Jared paired ion ave ood luck’ that I’d ever heard, so I gave hi ‘thank you’ that he had ever heard

It felt like forever before Jared finally said ‘Go!’

I sprung forith ashold of the nearest branch for only a fleetingto the next one ahead of et that soon I would be pursued, I zoorace and litheness like a feather in the wind

Plenty of logs and boulders scattered the ground, but for noas relying only on tree branches Bouncing froain would be nice and creative, but would slowI could hear n yet of the end of the forest

I put ori bloke behind me was fast and I knew that I couldn’t stay out of his reach for er

"I is a comin’," the bloke called out in an accent that wasn’t authentic Clearly he considered hi to win

Ah crap! He may just win it Up ahead there was a wide river Plenty of rocks stuck out of it I could easy dash across them but that would slow me down I almost felt dispirited until I saas beyond the river: the end of the forest As I noticed the fallen tree in front of the river, an idea entered ori bloke was shouting in a patronising voice Arsewipe

As I reached the river I landed nis as I leapt into the airalmost therealmost there Down Ha I’d cleared the river