He'd been using terrain drops or some weird angles to gain speed for the last ten minutes, jumping off ledges and small cliffs where Featherfall Reflex softened each landing.
At fifty-five minutes he lost them again or Eren thought he did.
He found a sheltered overhang between two boulders and collapsed against the rock. His legs were cramping and his vision had a slight blur around the edges from low blood sugar. He pressed his face against the cool stone and closed his eyes.
Thirty seconds. Just thirty seconds and then I have to start running again. Damn it!!
He counted to twenty before his Primal Senses picked them up. Not sound this time but smell. The musky rock-dust scent of northern gorilla carried on a wind shift from the south.
They were still coming. Maybe two hundred meters. They hadn't lost him at all. They'd just gone quiet.
