Continue to the high hill

"I think it still makes sense to go to the hill," Jade says. "We know that the map is printed backwards, but that might not be the only misleading thing about it. They can't fake the view from the hill, though. If we want to be sure of where we're going, we need to see it with our own eyes."

Kayo takes a deep breath. "Very well," she says. "One moment..." She drops her crooked stick and picks up another, longer and straighter and with a thick knot at one end. "If there are men in those woods, I will be ready for them."

"That's my girl," Jade says with a smile... and she can't help but give Kayo a small kiss on the lips. "Um... sorry."

"Do not be," Kayo says, blushing slightly. "After what we have already done, it seems silly to take offense at a kiss."

The way ahead is clear for a few hundred yards, with little chance of a surprise attack, so the girls make their way across it fairly quickly. The woods at the other side seem to almost form a wall, separating the area that seems reasonably safe from that which is foreboding and dangerous. Jade stops them at the edge.

"We need to stay quiet, and focused," she says. "I'll walk slightly ahead and on the right, and I'll be watching that side. You watch the other side. If you see me put my fist up like this, it means stop and be absolutely quiet. If you need my attention, tap me on the shoulder instead of speaking."

"What should I do if I see a man in the woods?" Kayo asks in a whispered voice.

"Then you can speak - but don't scream! One or two men we can deal with, but if we make too much noise and bring half a dozen down on us, we'll be in real trouble. Ready?"

"No... but we must go anyway."

Kayo takes Jade's hand and squeezes it for just a moment, and then lets go. The two girls enter the woods, walking slowly until their eyes adjust to the relative darkness. It is early afternoon, but the thick canopy overhead allows only a few scattered spots of sunlight to penetrate.

After about two minutes, Jade relaxes some of the tension in her shoulders. If there were someone watching us approach, she thinks, they would have jumped out at us by now. We haven't been seen yet. It's pretty much a given that we will be, though. I wish I wasn't so damn pale... Kayo's skin isn't exactly dark, but she blends in a little bit, at least. I feel like a fucking light bulb. Maybe it's a better idea to cover myself in mud after all... the ground is dry here, though, can't do it now. What's that?

Jade puts up her fist. Kayo stops dead behind her, not making a sound. Jade listens carefully to the breeze... and just as she's about to start walking again, she hears the sound that made her stop. It's a human voice - a male voice. She can't make out the words. All at once, she realizes that it's because he's not actually speaking, he's grunting.

"There's someone up ahead of us, in those bushes, I think," Jade whispers. "It sounds like they're having sex."

"I hear it," Kayo whispers back.

Jade feels the familiar rush of excitement, the artificially-inspired desire, and tries to force it back down. "If we stay quiet, we can move around to the left and he might never know we're here," Jade whispers.

"Oooh... yes, fuck me, fuck me with your hard cock!"

This time, the voice is female, and Jade suppresses a shiver as her body responds involuntarily to the lusty moaning. Dammit, she's going to bring more of the men running this way if she doesn't shut up! Jade thinks to herself. Then she hears a soft gasp behind her, and turns to see that Kayo has slid her own hand between her legs, stroking herself with a glazed look in her eyes. "Kayo!" Jade whispers sharply.

Kayo blinks, then seems to suddenly realize what she is doing. "Oh! I am sorry, I do not know what came over me."

"It's the food and water, you know that. I think it's getting stronger, harder to resist. But we have to try. Remember, it's not really what you want."

The Asian girl nods. "Yes, you are right."

"We need to hurry past them, they're making enough noise to attract attention. Come on, let's move - and be careful, there might be another man there standing guard so they can take turns with whoever they've caught."

Jade picks up the pace, and Kayo hurries to stay with her. The trees begin to open up slightly just ahead, and the moaning is getting louder as they approach. As they come up over a rise, Jade can suddenly see them, and she ducks down. The woods play tricks with the sound, she realizes. I didn't think we were this close to them!

The man is large and dark-skinned, with his back turned to them, and he's penetrating the girl he's caught from behind. Her hands are up against a large rock to support herself, and she doesn't seem to be objecting in any way. The girl is slim, and pretty, with long brown hair. Jade realizes that she's one of the two sisters, though she can't tell which one. Where's the other one? she thinks to herself. I would have thought they'd stick together.

Kayo's hand taps her shoulder, and she points just behind the man.

Jade looks, and sees it - it's his backpack, black in color and larger than the ones given to the girls. The men have better equipment than we do, she realizes. The map would be printed right, and it probably has more detail. And we know that they're able to track us when we stay in one place too long, so they must have some sort of electronic devices which allow them to do that. If we can get our hands on that pack, that'll give us a huge advantage! He's got to be almost done, though; we probably won't get the chance.

Suddenly, she sees movement off to the side. Another girl, very similar in appearance to the first, is approaching silently behind the man, clearly going for the pack. Of course, Jade realizes. One of them takes one for the team, the other gets the bag. Very clever. I think she might have waited too long, though; if he finishes before she -

"Oh, FUCK yeah!" the man exclaims, as he thrusts in deep and clearly lets her have all he's got.

Jade can't quite suppress the shiver this time, as unbidden images come to her mind of herself in his place - in HIS place? she realizes. She shakes her head to clear it, but she can't deny what she just saw in her mind's eye: the pretty brunette girl moaning in ecstasy as Jade (somehow) fucked her deep and hard, the feel of those firm, round tits in her hands, the eager and even desperate kisses as she turned to embrace her lover...

"Yeah, that's what you get, bitch," the man says in a deep, satisfied voice. "You just stay with me, and we'll - hey... Hey, what the fuck you doin' back there?!"

Jade snaps out of her fantasy. Shit, he saw her!

"What, you think you can put one over on me?" the huge man demands, pulling abruptly out of the girl he'd just been plowing and shoving her roughly to one side, where she stumbles and falls. Her sister, caught crawling on the ground with her hand outstretched for the bag, scrambles backward with panic in her eyes.