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"Bitch attackedpast h baskets to find clean cloths and cleaning fluid

"Yeah, but why? Why were you even here with her?"

"She friggin’ followedthe contents of one of the baskets

"Why are you hed, stopping to put everything she’d collected down on a s at me "Yes and no I’ I thought I knew About myself and my family and the people I live with …"

I frowned "How so?"

"Bryn, don’t take this the wrong way, but until you ca for the oofed around None of us worried about dying or being eaten or blowing things up with grenades …"

"Oh So that’s all my fault," I said in a flat voice

"No It’s not your fault at all," she said, frustrated "You co But now suddenly we know there areto coht it was And that the people I live with are closed- to putas she continued "And now I’et some supplies for our trip, and that crazy bitch attacks me, cuts me - so now thanks to her I have to worry about infection while I’m on the road - and we have to leave before she wakes up, or she’ll start a friggin’ war and I’ll probably get fed to the gators or so acrosswith me?"

She walked over and punched hardwith you, you idiot Now help et soht"

I reached up to help her, aardly putting fluid on the cloth she handedher shirt aside

"Why tonight?" I asked

Winky gestured towards Coli’s inert form as I wrapped a cloth around her ar to wake up and tell her boyfriend you tried to strangle her to death, and that I was going to steal fro anywhere except farther into the swamp"

"Do you really think they’d do that?"

She raised an eyebrow "Do you really want to wait and find out?"

I shookher sleeve back up "Let’s go"

She grabbed et soet Rob and Fohi"

"Where are they?"

"At the pool, trying to get so any luck?"

"Rob ht be, but Fohi … not so onna meet me back at my hut when you’re done here?" I asked

"Yep Be there in ten You’d better run I’ to immobilize the bitch and put her somewhere they won’t find her until to nearly lifeless on the floor "Better make it fifteen"

"You sure you can do that with your arm?"

"I can do whatever I set et that about me"

I put my hands up in surrender "Oh, I won’t Believe"I love that you’re co with me, but I hate that you were forced into it"

She pattedIt was uess you like to live dangerously"

"Nope," she saidhere is riskier than going with you, so it’s just si oing into a slow jog I heard her response floating out from behind me

"I’noring the sounds of branches swishing pastunderall over the place Our departure had been pushed forward and I had no time to lose

I arrived at the pool area to find Fohi and Rob sitting on the ay, getting dressed, surrounded by giggling girls

"Oh, hey, Bryn What’s up?" asked Fohi, separating hi next to him

I took hi in a quiet voice, "Don’t freak out, but we need to leave now"

"What?!" he said in a high-pitched, panicked voice

I squeezed hi loudly in his face, "I just told you not to freak out, stupid!"

"Ow, that hurts," he said, trying to brush me off "Sorry, you just surprised me Next ti, before you tell ht"

Rob had walked up in time to hear the last part of his speech "What’d he just say? We’re leaving tonight?"

"Yeah, you heard right," said Fohi, bending down to lace up his moccasins "She says we have to leave now"