We should run into a thicker part of the woods to try and keep it from getting at us.
Find an immediate spot where there is thick obstacles between I and a hunter from above and to break line of sight from it.
Pause and listen, and assess if it's safe to move to a more secure overhead, a hole, a cave, or nook under fallen trees.
(3)You rush to the thick base of a nearby tree and stop, listening. You hear surprisingly quiet flapping, and then the bird-beast crashes through the canopy, once more carving 7 deep gashes into the place you dived to when it last struck. You take a few seconds to contemplate this - it was far closer last time and you were not near any tree, so it seems reasonable to assume that it can't see you properly through the branches of a tree you're directly under and will try to attack wherever it thinks you've moved.
Then you run. Though you're not entirely sure of where you are in the forest, you know the rough direction you need to take to get deeper into the forest, where it's thick enough to hide you from the beast or, at the very least, hinder it's movements and maybe even convince it you're not worth the effort. As you run, it continues to carve deep gashes into the ground where you've been. At first it isn't often close, but as you run deeper into the forest it seems to realise what you're doing and begins trying to predict where you've headed since it last saw you. As the trees get thicker and the canopy becomes more of a struggle for it to dive through, it begins attacking you with increasing franticness, screeching wildly as you run deeper into the forest. Then, for a moment, it stops... only to come crashing straight through the canopy, sliding across the ground and smashing through two trees before a third halts it.
(2) You barely dodge out of the way of the crash landing beast and continue running, but it quickly becomes apparent that the beast isn't planning on catching you from the air. It begins charging towards you on foot, awkwardly smashing through trees and letting loose a horrifying screech that painfully dims your hearing and puts you off balance. You continue running, but your ears are ringing in horrific pain and, despite it's difficulties getting through trees, it's catching up to you.
You can't be far from safety now, as the forest has gotten considerably thicker here, but the beast has seemingly gone into a frantic frenzy and is catching up to you. You don't think you can outrun it to safety.
What do you do?
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