Thank you for voting me winner last time !
I had real fun with this prompt, not sure if it still counts as totally on-topic because I turned it around and wrote from the perspective of the hunted.
In this case, the victim is Marv the Magnificent, one of the recurrent characters in my D&D setting (and, I must admit, one I've become quite attached to, he's so much fun to write about 😀)
https://peakd.com/hive-199275/@alonicus/scholar-and-scribe-invitational-marvs-mad-dash
I forgot to mention... I checked the word count, and after a few judicial cuts before hitting the Publish button, I think it comes out at exactly 1500 words excluding intro and fluff....