The march was brutal on all of them. No breaks for resting feet’s or full bladders and Spencer was trying her best not to pee her pants at this point in time. Her legs were smaller than most of the guys so her stride came to be at least an inch or two short, “What’s the hold up?” Dennison screamed seeing the marching party slowing down.

“Sir this kid here ain’t going fast enough,” one of the soldiers spoke. He was an elderly man about thirty with light red hair and green eyes.

Aiden stared down at Spencer, he was at least six foot one which towered her five foot seven statue easily, “What’s the problem?”

“Um…I…my feet are smaller…” she spoke hastily unsure what to tell the guy.

“What was that…stop your stuttering, if your feet are too small than I’ll teach you to get them longer. From here on out you will run a two miles ahead of us stop wait at attention for us to catch up, once the last man at the end passes you are to run the next two miles is that understood?”

“But I…”

“IS THAT UNDERSTOOD?”

“Yes sir,” she growled clutching her fist at her side trying to hide that fact she’d almost knocked his head off for yelling at her like that.

“Well?” he nodded for her to start running.

“Watch your back,” she snipped at the man who saw the fury behind her eyes and gulped before putting his brave front back on and rolled his eyes.

Taking a deep breath she started running, pacing her self. As she passed each of her brothers she nodded slightly telling them she was fine if not a might pissed off. Bladder full and a long way to run she tried to think of something else.

Trees passed by slowly, no matter how fast she was running it never seemed fast enough, glaring at the ground for most of the time than back up to make sure she wasn’t going to smash into anything. The voices of the soldiers behind her began to get further and further away as her feet carried her into the silence of the forest. All of a sudden she felt like she was back home, in her own forest, alone and peaceful with only the scurrying animals and lone wind to keep her company.