She tried to calm her breathing as Beta went flying past. She couldn't stay here, now - if it figured out that it was a double, then it would come right back here. She'd find a new place to hide and find some other way to trick it. Carefully, she slipped out of her hiding place and sneakily made her way across the bones, diving down into the next place she found that would work as a little hideaway.
She waited, quietly, in her new hiding spot, waiting for the sound of its pawsteps to alert her to its approach. She tried to see through little holes in the bones to see if she could catch sight of its approach, but she couldn't see anything, or, at least, she just couldn't see it. She wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not.
Too nervous to sit and wait, she closed her eyes and tried to see its actions, what it was going to do in the future. She saw many things - Beta stalking towards her hiding place, hidden, in the shadows, and causing it to collapse on top of her. She saw it sprinting up with no regard to its noise, and her fleeing, disappearing into Canis again for another chase. And, finally, she saw herself slipping out of the hiding spot, one future where she successfully made it out and found a new place to hide, and another where Beta saw her immediately and followed her to her next spot.
The visions ended, then, and she opened her eyes. But when would they happen? She could either try and find a new spot...or go and chase again. Either way, this was exhausting. It was certainly persistant!
Wilder decided that she'd rather not go running this time and she had no idea if Beta was already outside of her hiding place by now. She needed to take a risk and try to trip it up. Because she had the idea - maybe if she left the cave, she'd technically escape and win the game! Beta hadn't exactly spelled it out for her, but she would consider it a victory.
She turned and slipped out of the back of her hiding spot and paused on the ouside, looking around for the right way to go before picking a direction. She slipped quietly into the next good hiding place she found, this time a small tunnel next to a boulder that must have been the den of some creature long ago.
She waited in her sanctuary for a time, but everything was quiet out there. A bit of rustling, but it could have just been a rat or something. She steadied her breath. It was okay, everything was okay. She could do this. But now she needed to find a way out. She'd probably thrown Beta off of her trail now, so it might be safe to make a mad dash for the exit of the cave.
Deciding that it was her best choice right now, she began to climb out. But right as her head emerged, she saw it, just sitting there, waiting. She screeched and immediately smacked it with a hurtling force of magicka, grabbing its body and just...throwing it. Far away, so she could run. But the suddenness and violence of the action, as well as all the other magic she'd performed that day, suddenly had her head knocking and exhaustion crawling over her limbs. Man she was tired.
She was so tired, she could barely move at all, her limbs aching from the running and all the magic and hiding. She hadn't quite noticed it until now, the adrenaline keeping her going, but the final spell had completely drained her of energy. She certainly tried, turning around to run when Beta came scampering back, but she barely got a few steps before it had caught her.
She slumped on the ground in front of it, tired, ready to sleep. "Yeah..." she mumbled, blearily. "Yeah you....you win....you got me...." She could barely stay awake, but she managed to lift her head just a bit and give Beta a congratulatory smile and say "Nice job...good....game..." before her head fell and she passed out.
*exit