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She stopped a ways off from the clearing, the sound of engines and chatter told her that there were at least two dozen people. She worked at her camera, trying to pop the lens cap off and get it working in her suddenly shaky and clammy hands as her heart hammered in her ears.

The hammering was why she didn’t hear the snapping of the twig or the flicking of the branches until it was much too late.

In a movie, he would have given her some pithy one-liner before knocking her out but instead, he just smashed her upside the head with a baseball bat and sent her reeling to the ground.

Dead to the world.