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She ran. Hard and fast she ran straight into the Wood, without a thought she ran. She was stripped raw of all but her most primal response, there was no need to think about what she was doing, all that was necessary was to escape.
By the time the frantic beating of her heart had swayed to a shuttering staccato she had been drawn far enough into the briars to be completely lost. And so, she did what any other somewhat normal teen would do. She cried. Curled beneath His oak (though of course she hadn’t known that at the time) she cried until nothing was left. Only then did she founder into the abyss of dreamless sleep. Well at least that’s what she assumed, though I suppose that is a lesson for another day.
Woken by the warm, sultry rays of sun, she blinked, feeling oddly refreshed and only a little out of place. But, what could you expect in a situation such as hers?
All at once she surged to her feet whirling about like squirrel on crack then fell to knees with just as much grace. She realized that she had no bloody earthly idea from which way she had come. Valiantly fighting back screams of so many mixed emotions I wouldn’t even know where to begin, she leaned against the tree weighing the situation through tightly shut eyes.
  After wandering the forest in circles for what seemed like hours she glared at the resolute broken branches of the Oak. Fuming she sat back beneath it and silently blamed the damned thing for her predicament. You can imagine her surprise when a voice pierced the dying light, “ I have nothing to do with your mess.”
Jumping about a foot she nearly passed out. When the hem of a blood red cloak brushed the autumn leaves before her she decided that it was probably the best option anyways and promptly jerked into oblivion.
Years could have passed (though of course they didn’t) and Tirei woke  much more pleasantly this time than she had before, lying underneath that grand, sagacious Tree. She was wrapped in something warm and red and...wait, red? She blanched,  remembering the man that had appeared out nowhere. “So it wasn’t a dream...”
  Night shown brightly, the stars reflecting their silver light off the foliage that was not lit by the crackling fire. Tirei instinctively pulled the cloak tighter about her as she questioned the shadowed man, no creature before her. “Do I know you?”
His voice was a smoky baritone, “No.” Amber eyes gleamed, appearing for all the world like bits of the frozen flame.
  “What do you want?”
He spared her a glance then,” I want you out of my Forest.”