When Tina started eating Bette got up again and motioned that she wanted to give Tina some water. Tina allowed this. When Bette put the canteen to Tina’s mouth chocolate brown orbs meet hazel brown eyes. For a moment they were both transfixed.

Tina couldn’t believe such beautiful eyes could kidnap her but she did.

“What does she want?” “Maybe this is just some silly joke the girls have played on her,” Tina thought to herself.

Bette could see that Tina was contemplating something. Perhaps the woman was wandering why she had been taken.

Tina let her thoughts become words.

Tina: Why have you done this? What do you want with me?

Bette couldn’t understand Tina and Bette knew Tina couldn’t understand her.

Bette picked up a rock and drew one female figure and then another female figure holding hands in the dirt. Bette drew one of the female’s with a veil. The symbolism was unmistakable to Tina.

Tina’s eyes bogged out.

“Oh my God! She thinks I’m going to be her bride,” Tina thought to herself.

Bette knew from the look on Tina’s face that she understood what the symbols meant.

Tina: No, No.

Tina used her tied hands to mess up the drawings.

“You kidnapped me! Where I’m from you don’t kidnap a bride,” Tina attempted to use her hands to show what Bette had done.

Bette looked away from Tina and Tina knew then that Bette understood her. Bette went back to the tree she was sitting against defeated. She knew that she had handle the whole situation wrong but she found Tina so alluring that she couldn’t leave without her. Bette picked up a rock and threw it at a tree far away. She was mad at herself and the whole situation.

Tina could tell that Bette was frustrated and perhaps now realized her mistake. She thought maybe now this woman would come to her senses and let her go.

Tina: Look I think this whole thing was just a big misunderstanding. Let me go and I promise I want tell anyone.

Bette looked up at Tina.

Bette got up from her sitting position and began to pace.

“I have to convince her that she is my bride but how?” Bette thought to herself.

Tina was thinking that maybe Bette was contemplating letting her go. Tina began to smile with glee.

“What could possibly convince her?” Bette thought.

“Maybe a fur coat, no.” “Maybe some jewelry, yes, yes that’s it,” Bette said to herself.

Bette reached in her pouch attached to her garments and pulled out a red ruby.

Bette smiled widely as she approached Tina with the ruby.