"This feels familiar..?"
Hope slowly opened her eyes to analyze the situation then quickly spiraled into panick. 'Damn it, Damn it!'
Discovering her name had caused her far worse nausea than any other word had, which in turn led to her fallling currently into her demise.
The beast had already approached the cliff side and was glaring at her with what seemed like pure malice or hunger, perhaps both.
After her mind ran through every possible way to avoid ending her short-lived life, she concluded that grabbing the cliffside to stop her fall would be an impossible feat as she had been falling for around half a minute.
'Even if I lose an arm, I have to slow it down.'
Fortunately and unfortunately for her the cliff side wasn't smooth like typical cliffs would be, but full of rough, dagger-like stones mixed with cracks on the surface. So gaining hold would be quite easy if she grabbed the right purchase on the cliff, but any mistake would kill her.
Using her non-dominant hand she grabbed the only stone poking off the cliff that seemed like it wouldn't cut her hand open, then quickly yelped out in pain.
The impact from the fall had hit mostly her left shoulder, and she heard it break and her muscles tore.
Unfortunately, the stone failed to bear the weight of her plummeting body as it broke off the cliff making a sound eerily similar to her bones breaking.
"Aughhh…."
A groan escaped her lips, and she was left with mere moments to prepare for landing.
The stone had not entirely been useless, as it slowed her fall enough for her legs to maybe not shatter.
'Don't break! Don't break!!''
Hope urged her body.
Soon the impact came and she felt it crushing her ribs and making her legs ache in absolute sorrow. However, she had heard nothing break this time.
'YES!'
Her face was then launched against the cliff at blitzing speed, for the monster had not waited for her to regain posture. Shards of the cliff exploded and an unusually shaped crater was left scarring its surface. Hope fell to her knees coughing up blood and unable to breathe.
After a while the smoke dissipated and Hope glanced up, fully expecting the abomination to lunge at her.
But it stood still. Keeping its distance and smiling.
That smile was horrifically similar to a humans and it made her shiver in pure fear. It was as if a persons face had been unnaturally morphed into an unknown 'thing' and fabricated by flesh to force the being to somehow function.
'Hah… It's.. It's mocking me. '
Her focus shot back and forced her mind to run faster than it ever had. Her eyes dsrted around at feverish speeds, attempting to find an escape. Then she laid eyes on it, the useless rock that had done nearly nothing and tore her arm.
However, the rock reminded her of something she had often seen before. Soon the familiar sting of nausea came, but this time her expression had not changed in the slightest.
'Am I .. Getting use to it?"
Soon she rummaged her brain for any clue as to why this rock would stir her mind and quickly procured a word.
'It's similar to an unrefined sword..! But absolute garbage compared to a normal one.'
Finally rising on her feet she dragged herself to the shard of rock at the fastest her body would allow, which was a slow limp, and picked up the cliff shard.
"GrrrEhhhh!"
It seems the beast had grown tired of waiting.