Someone New

Once again I was prodded on the ass to continue to move deeper into the woods. I was losing both all sense of direction and of time since the foliage covered the sun, so I couldn’t say where the sun was in the sky. So I had no way of knowing how long or how far the bastard with that sharpened stick made me walk.

Just when I thought I would have collapsed, the guy stopped me in a clearing with the most ramshackle cabin I have ever seen still standing.

Why it hasn’t collapsed by now was a total mystery to me. The guy called out, “Alric, it’s me, Brice!”

There was no reply, but for a board falling from the roof. I didn’t like what that implied and was about to say so when the guy with the stick prodded me to go towards the cabin. I was at the area of the veranda that was barely erect when the guy made me sit on the bare ground.

“Alric if you’re around, I got me a trespasser for you to look over!”

There came sounds from the woods, off to the right of the cabin. The trees were tightly standing together so little light penetrated them. I saw movement then caught a glimpse of a man standing there armed with a gun.

Make them stand Brice and make them turn towards me!”