Jagen, struggling with the long thirty-minute silence breaks the ice with the woman,
‘What’s your name?’ she asks.
‘Iren. What’s yours?’
‘Jagen. How are you feeling?’
‘Sore, tired and dirty. Those men were evil pure evil.’ She bursts into tears dropping to her knees.
Jagen places her hand on top of her head. ‘It’s going to be okay now; we’re going to get help.’
Suddenly there are voices in the distance. Jagen crouches down to the same level as Iren, who very quickly stops sobbing. Jagen points towards a large tree indicating that they should use it to try and conceal themselves.
They keep still and listen out for further noise; Jagen can hear her heart beating. Twigs break from behind them,
‘Quick!’ shouts Jagen grabbing Iren’s arm, pulling her in the opposite direction to the noise. They scramble through the trees, voices from behind them getting louder as they gain on them. Gunshot sounds echoes through the air causing Iren to freeze with fear,
‘Come on!’ shouts Jagen, ‘Got to keep moving!’ There’s a worrying look in Iren’s eyes, a look of death as she drops to the floor. ‘Iren!’ shouts Jagen running over to her, another shot is fired, she hears a bullet whiz past her, missing her by centimetres with the velocity of the round pushing her onto her side. She opens her eyes and screams as she see’s blood leaking from Iren’s chest. She kicks at the dirt in fear as she scrambles to her feet, running as fast as her little heart will allow.
Repeated shots are fired, the rounds hitting the trees as Jagen darts through them, a sudden burning sensation is felt in the back of her leg and Jagen flies to the floor screaming in pain. Gasping for breath two men stand over her smiling from ear to ear; one of the men is the guy from the car and is pointing a gun to her face,
‘You will do exactly what I say or that pretty face of your will be blown all over this forest floor.’ She nods, still breathing heavily, gasping for breath. The other man next to him grabs her by the hair and pulls her to her feet. The moment she stands and opens her eyes, he punches her on her jaw, knocking her out cold.