Ratslaying contest

>Well contest or not, you're exhausted and are going to eventualy collapse at which pointt he swarm will catch up and you are dead. So use what little of your reality altering power you have left to create some kind of safe place to rest in or hope your steed is that endurant it can keep ahead forever.

You commune with your Light Steed and grant it the Aspect of the Hart. Its speed increases, now nearly four times the speed of the Swarm on the hazy horizon.

>Remove rat teeth from dead rats, use as caltrops to delay the fiends from nibbling at your kneecaps.

You extract the teeth and skins of the dead rats, scattering the former on the ground behind you. Time passes, and you stop. You and your Light Speed attempt to sleep. It is not easy, with the endless dull grey light above, but you feel safe after checking the horizon and seeing that the rats have slowed their advance in the Zone of Teeth. You sense that 3 rats have perished in the crush at the Teeth.

kill all the rats now

You awaken from a dream of blood and brown fur. In it, you had killed all the rats, but you persisted in this world, without a purpose. You check the horizon: The rats are still distant. But you feel your natural gifts returning. Your wounds have completely healed, and you feel Hunger and Thirst.

THIRTEEN THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FOUR RATS REMAIN