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ᎻꮖꮐꮋᏞꭺꭰꭹ
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Aug 12, 2014 07:21AM
"O-okay." Lucy nodded.
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"Now we need to move, keep going until we find our way back home." he took her hand again and led her in the direction he thought was home.
Lucy held his hand tightly, hugging herself with her other arm.
They move slowly the morning light just barely making its way up in the east.
Jeff shook his head. I am not totally sure, I don't recognize anything, we need to find some high ground.
Jeff looked around trying to find a hill they could climb and find their location. He could see one a little ways away, that he thought might work so he adjusted their trajectory in that direction.
Lucy threw a couple of quick glances over her shoulder as they marched toward the hill.
They picked their way through the forest moving quietly and keeping close to the cover of the trees.
"What did the men say they were looking for?" Lucy asked quietly.
"I don't even know, They said a necromancer but I have no idea what that even is, I was not a lot of help to them at all, but they gave me a few bruises for my trouble.Jeff kept his eyes locked on the hill and it grew larger with each step.
"I don't think they were trying to hurt me at that camp." She told him, holding her bandaged cheek where Ben fixed her up.
"Then why did they take you there away from your home?"
"I don't know." She said softly. "I never got to ask."
"I am not sure we should trust anyone right now" Jeff said quietly
Jeff's breathing increased with the exertion of climbing the hill but they were making progress and had not seen anyone that morning so far anyway.
Lucy fell halfway up the hill, trying to catch her breath.
Jeff looked at her, her clothes ripped and dirty. "Lets take a rest" he said pointing to a flat rock.
Lucy nodded and flopped onto the flat rock with a loud grunt.
"Are you holding up okay?" he asked concerned. "That thing last night I keep seeing its face" he shuddered and shook his head.
"His face wasn't always like that." Lucy found herself saying out loud.
"You knew him?" Jeff asked surprise on his face "Who was he?"
Lucy shook his head. "No, I don't know him. But I saw him in my sleep. I thought it was a dream..." She looked down.
"so you dreamed about him?" he asked a little confused.
"Yeah. But he didn't look like that. He looked...alive. Then, when I woke up, I saw him at the other end of the river. Looking....dead." Lucy grimaced.
Jeff nodded not sure what it all meant. "I think you have been under a lot of stress lately, you should try to forget all this soon we will be safe.
"Ready to climb again?" he asked offering her his hand to help her stand.
"Yes." She nodded and took his hand, standing up.
Jeff helped her stand then held her hand as they climbed higher up the hill more and more of the landscape coming into view.
Lucy scanned the area, looking for anything that looks familiar to her.
Jeff was panting as they neared the top of the hill he didn't want anyone to seem them so he stopped in a patch of trees just before the top on the hill."See anything familiar?" he asked Lucy.
"Me either" Jeff said a knot of concern settling in his stomach. "See anything that looks like a town?"
Lucy gasped. "Smoke! I see smoke ever there." She pointed ahead of them.
His eyes followed her fingers and dread filled him.
"What is it?" She looked over at him.
"I think your captors are tired of looking for you in the forest now they are just burning it down in order to flush us out. We need to find a large stream and fast" he said fear rising in him.
Jeff look around frantically for where a stream may have formed. He saw a dip in the ground a few miles away and he took her hand "We are going to have to make a run for it."
Lucy nodded and began to run, holding onto his hand tightly.
They were tired and the run was not graceful but they made okay time the acrid smoke filled their lungs as they ran the last few yards to the stream bed.
Lucy coughed and sank to her knees when they reached the stream, gulping in as much fresh air as she could.
"Here" he tore a piece of cloth from her tattered nightgown and soaked it in water and handed it to her "breathe through it" he said as he held a similar cloth up to his mouth and nose using it like a bandanna. "now we have to lie down in the stream when the fire gets close" He hoped they would not be boiled alive when the fire came.
Lucy held the wet fabric to her mouth and nodded.
The stream was cold and Jeff did not like the idea of laying in it but being burned to death was not a pleasant idea either. He glanced around the small clearing hoping no one would find them before they could move again.
Lucy sat in the water, gasping as the cold water enveloped her bottom half.
The flames drew nearer and they could hear the crackling of the fire as it consumed the tress it was time to lie in the stream. Jeff laid down and he could feel the wind that the fire was creating all by itself as the heat from the fire rose into the sky.
