She swings the stick and runs.

"Hey, hey, slow down there, cutie." The man's grin is unwavering, his voice smooth. "Didn't you hear me? We can do this the easy way, or the--"

CRACK! Shuri swings the stick with all her might and it slams into his jaw, knocking him backwards. He crumples against the ground, blood trickling from his mouth, and in a frenzy, nothing working in her head but the voice screaming at her to runrunrun, Shuri scrambles to get to her feet and bolts. Faintly from behind, she hears him swearing up a storm and groaning in pain, and it grows ever fainter as she lunges deeper into the woods.

It's only when, her lungs burning and her chest heaving and her legs aching so hard they feel ready to fall off, she finally slows to a stop once he's no longer in sight or earshot that she realizes she left behind her map. She leans onto the stick, using it as an anchor as she tries to catch her breath.

"Fuck. How can I be so--so fucking stupid?" Shuri mutters angrily to herself. "Great fucking job, Shuri, not even a day into the game and you lost your goddamn map!"

She takes a deep breath, looking up to survey her surroundings. She's run into a deeper part of the woods where it's started to taper off towards a clearing with a large lake, the stream from before nowhere to be seen, and now she can clearly see cliffs. In the far distance, if she squints, she can make out a shape that looks somewhat like a house.

A safe house? A trap with a man, or more, ready to hold her down and fuck her senseless? God knows she can't take yet another mad dash from rapists, and she's not in the mood to take the risk again.

But her map. Goddamn it all, she needs that map if she wants to know where she is and where the points on the island are. She can go back to get it, but that risks running into that man again. Would he be hunting for her now, though? There are plenty of girls to choose from, surely he'd pass up on the trouble of going after her in favor of just taking some other virgin nearby.

That's without taking into account the possibility of another man prowling around there and taking the map, however. Or another girl finding the map and taking it.

Shuri takes out a bottle of water and uncaps it, drinking deeply in one go and slopping some of it over herself as she does. She manages to restrain herself enough to stop from drinking more than a third, however, and caps it quickly once she's done.

She stares moodily at the lake. She can steal a map from another girl, if she gets **** enough. Or risk checking if the house ahead really is a safe house that has supplies, maps included.

She glances up at the sky. It's still bright, but she knows it won't be long until it's nightfall and she'll have to find someplace secure to sleep. Whatever she's going to do, she has to do it fast.