“Um, no thanks, I don’t think you could help me,” she said softly, “if you could just tell me which way…”

“That way,” Bette answered pointing to the right side.

“Thank you,” the woman said walking that way.

“No problem,” Bette said watching in awe as she walked away. Bette sighed and continued to her cabin still thinking about that intoxicating woman who had stolen her breath away. She entered her cabin and called out for her dad, but received no answer.

“Must be visiting, Kit,” Bette muttered as she walked into her room and changed out of her day shorts into her night pants. It could get freezing cold in the forests of Westland. Her night pants were baggy and they were a khaki color. Bette sighed and set out to the forest again. She would visit her friend’s cabin. Alice was like Bette’s sister. Everyone in Westland thought she was a weirdo, and Bette was her only friend. Alice was a very weird person, but Bette liked that weirdness about her.

Bette trekked through the forest freely. The sun was already setting and it was started to get dark, but Bette didn’t need light to find her way around the forest. Bette froze suddenly when she heard a loud scream echoing through the forest. Bette immediately pulled out her forest knife and then grimaced when she realized she had grabbed it with her wounded hand. She switched it into her good hand hissing in pain, and ran out into the path where the scream had come from.

Bette gasped upon seeing the woman from earlier, face to face with the four men. She had her knives out and she had a deep gash on her thigh.

Bette stepped in front of the woman defensively and held her forest knife toward the four men. One of the men growled and said, “stay out of this and you won’t get hurt woman!”

“You should go,” the woman urged.

“I’m not going anywhere!” Bette said indignantly, holding her knife firmly.

“You asked for it!” The man said lunging forward.

“Watch it!” the woman called but Bette was an efficient fighter and quite easily dodged the attack and delivered a kick to the man’s stomach.