We are walking until we are come to stand at the foot of the mountain. "Let's go", he starts to lead the way upwards.
A few feet after our starting point, I hear sounds, coming from the left side behind me. I turn around, looking straight to the forest. I feel eyes on me. These eyes seem to be intelligent, like a wolf wants to catch a deer.
"Oliver, do you feel, like somebody watches us? Maybe a hunting wolf or a human? I have an uneasy feeling that's something bad. Can you understand me?"
He seems to look around, but his eyes aren't catching this moment, which I have recognized before. "Wanda, it seems, you haven't eaten enough. Maybe you should more dried sausage, so you get more salt into your body. And drink more water, so you are hydrated to the fullest. It would be good for you. Otherwise, I can understand your uneasy feeling, you are walking with your boss into a jungle and I in your situation, would have a very unsettling feeling, for sure. And as a woman, you are more stressed than a man anyway."
Of course, because I'm a woman, I am hysteric. You are really funny, Oliver. We will see, who's the uneasy feeling person here, if the blast in my belly is the true. To his comment of stressed woman, I don't give an answer, this is under me. His statement is so silly!
"Frankly, I don't understand men ", I mumble to myself. We are walking higher and higher. Suddenly, a loud noise comes from the right side. Faster than I've ever been, I let myself fall to the ground. With me, I push one leg between his ones, so he falls down, too. "Wanda, what are you star....", a boom is shuttering through the air. Above us a gun is firing it's bullets. If we were standing right now, we would have more holes than swiss cheese. Good thing, I have trusted my stressed womanly brain.
"So, Oliver, it seems I have been right about our situation. We should run back to the forest, shouldn't we? If we continue to lay here, without any protection, we can also walk right into the bullet hail, don't you think so, too?"
"I think the way to the forest is to long. We should rob right behind the next stone, which gives us enough security. It's the best, we do it fast. We take the nearest. Come on", he gives me his introduction. It's a good plan.
With the fastest motion we can do, we are robbing on the earth until we reach our safe place. "We should rob further away, this is the next stone", he shows me a big stone to our right. A bullet, which streaks almost my ear, let me do the first rob. "Come on", I cry behind me. A few seconds later, we reach our second goal. Two more times we rob to our safe stones. By the third time we rob further away, a bullet meets Oliver right arm. A good thing, we already lay on the ground, it's only a strip, not a deep wound.
We rob again and again, countless times it seems we reach an ending, but the bullets prove our hope wrong.
Suddenly, feet are walking towards us. The bullets come to an end. We look to the woman standing right in front of us. She looks alike Oliver. It seems to be his sister, because he's looking quite surprised to see somebody, he knows in the midst of the jungle.
"Theresa", his only words meeting the situation right now. "Oliver", she states. "Sister, what are you doing here? I thought you died back then. I saw you bleed to your death as somebody shoot you with an arrow", he is clearly confused about this moment. "And I had to travel back alone with our parents, I don't the context, please enlighten me. I don't understand." He claps his hands around his head and looks to the ground. I, for myself, look at her, to see facial expression. There's no sign of missing her brother. Maybe time heals wounds? No, they should be happy to see each other again, but against all social standards, they look alien to each other.
"Maybe I did die to you, my brother. But against all odds, I survived. Thanks to the people who healed me", she raises her arms like a priest to us. That leads us to look around us. There are many people surrounding us, looking quite interested in us. Almost scary.
"They not only healed me, but took me into their big family. I married the first son of the chief, so I was social and financial independent. Even if I wanted never to marry, I'm living a happy life here. I think, you want to stay here for a few days. Of course, you should not tell anyone about the place we are living. It would only endanger our lives. I hope, you can understand that." With these words his sister turns around and walks toward the forest. The bullet rain stopped long ago, it seems they don't like foreign ones, but his sister rescued us, before we died of it.
"Oliver", I whisper next to him. This situation is so sinister, I don't trust anybody around us, not even his sister. "Yes", he answers. "Oliver, how died your sister?" I can't believe, these people could heal his sister so easily. Modern medicine is much more capable of doing that. His parents should have an emergency call. Why didn't they do that?
"A wild animal took a few bites of her, not much from the flesh, but blood was flowing everywhere, it was really bad. We played together in the woods, apart from our parents. She only wanted to protect me, so she went in front of me, while I was running fast to our parents. But as we went the way back, she didn't lye there. We couldn't find her. So, we reported her as missed. We didn't had a chance of finding her. It was really bad. I don't want to think back. It hurts to much." Very interesting.
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