On the road again

While you were walking you decided to start a conversation. At first her responses were short but as you kept up the casual conversation she slowly relaxed. Turns out she didn’t come here entirely for fun, she used to be a **** addict and had a massive debt, With modern medicine her addiction was barely noticable now and she had been clean for years. the debt however, and the people she owed it to still followed her. So eventually she came here because a **** is nearly impossible to find once they are sold. Altough she did say she originally found this place because the idea appealed to her, but if her situation was normal she probably wouldn’t have commited herself to it. She was just starting to believe she could survive when you caught her. Strangely enough you got her lifestory out of her faster then her name which she was hesitant to say (probably the result of a lifetime being chased around by criminals) so eventually you called her Chloe, after Chloa (the **** she used to take). It was a bit of an outdated name but you weren’t very good at naming people and she didn’t seem to mind.

As you kept talking and walking time passed in a blur and before you knew it the sun was going down and you reached your location, it was a mostly open area surrounded by woods all around. There was a deposit close by (you walked past it on your way) and if you listened closely you could hear a river which meant fresh water.

You removed all the items from Chloe’s body and retied her feet together. You then put her against a tree so she could sit upright and went to fill your water canteens in the river, by the time you came back she had seemingly fallen asleep. You wish you could join her but you had a tent to setup. Thankfully it was an easy process, all you had to do was hammer the poles deep into the ground, connect them with some wire looking thing and press a button. The difficult part however was the mini solar array needed to power the damm thing. After a lot of trial and error and nearly ripping up the manual you finally got it, kind of working: several warning lights were blinking yellow and one of the panels didn’t fully extend but the other 3 did. Which was good enough for you.

After pressing the button on the tent it only took a couple minutes before the poles were connected with yellow cloth flaps. You put your sleeping bag down, crawled in and wanted to go to sleep...... Except Cloe was still outside, and she didn’t have a bed meaning she was going to sleep in yours, so where are you going to sleep... Its going to be the floor isn’t it..... yep.

And so you put Chloe on the bed gently to not wake her, wriggled her body into the sleeping bag which was much to big for her and layed down next to her, using some canvas originally meant for a small canopy to the tent as a bed, your bag as a pillow and some jackets as a blanket. Truly a king’s bed.

You could of course have Chloe sleeping on the floor but at this point you were tired enough to sleep anywhere and it was your responsibility as her owner to keep her healthy. You also wanted to show that you weren’t somebody to fear. This made you think back to Alice still in a closet, you probably went overboard. Well thats a problem for when you are back.