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Chapter 7 - chapter 7: military 'intelligence'

while we thought about all the trails, drop offs and traps in these woods, as a family proudly into hunting and trapping, apparently the military who sends a city boy with instructions to run a straight line from the coordinates they were dropped off from doesn't think at all. its around 10 when I see him on one of the furthest south cameras in the woods, running in a straight line in military fatigues toward our camp. Before I can even get out a sentence to that furthest house (which does have 5 gaurds at it including two of the people living at that house, a middle aged couple who have a teenage girl, shes 17 and quite a good shot so shes okay by herself in the house and always has a sidearm strapped to her thigh) he takes a running jump over a mud pit and lands directly in a trap, causing it to snap violently, and as the jaws lock around his leg just above the top of his boot, he runs out of chain where the trap is chained to a stake in the ground and he face plants in the woods. this violent movement causes the trap to dig deeper into his leg, and hes screaming in pain. I send out 3 members of the furthest houses gaurd, and tell them they will have to disarm him, pat him down and be cautious, but after he agrees to be compliant to pry the trap off of his leg and bandage up his wound. i give the orders for him to be blind folded, bound and ear plugs to be put in so that he can be transported. I contact my father as they are on thier way on foot to retrieve him being cautious of other attacks, informing him of the situation and what instructions i gave. he is a bit worn, tired from a long day and only having gone to bed around an hour previous to this, but he agrees on the premise that even though he was trespassing thats no reason to let a young man suffer under the orders of reckless superiors. Getting affirmation from him to deal with this situation as i see fit during his hours asleep, and the gaurds finishing up with the young man I send out a scout on a fourwheeler with a companion to watch the boy they will be transporting as he drives. hes put in one of the isolation chambers, sound proofed rooms that are locked from the outside and pretty much barren of anything that could be used as a weapon. I clean his woundsand treat them not wanting to risk our doctor in any way.