I'm almost positive there's a symbolic reason all the strong women get helped by somebody, but for the life of me I can't figure out why.
Good story.

I wrote quite a long review for this and then fictionpress went and ate it. So this will be kind of short.

First off, she doesn't seem like a particularly strong woman - she's running away and/or terrified most of the time, but I liked the story anyway. It's well-written and the tone is good.

Nice mythology reference. I don't really think you need to explain it in the note, it seemed fairly obvious to me. But it doesn't matter.

Interesting use of snakes too, it's an unusual twist on the connotations that snakes generally have, so that's all good.

I can't think of anything else, so yeah, I hope that was helpful or something.

~The Dream Unicorn