Irritation arose without reason.
Ever since she had met Flossie Wright, there had been an unusual alertness. Even to this day, though Flossie Wright had yet to do anything "bad", she still couldn't shake off the wariness in her heart.
Flossie Wright...
What are you scheming by getting close to Sandy Cruz?
...
It took Flossie Wright five minutes to catch the second fish.
By comparison, Mariana Buck's skills were slightly inferior; she was still staring at the fish swimming in deep water.
She didn't pay them any attention.
Once she got back to shore, Flossie Wright put on her shoes and socks, dealt with the two fish, and followed the direction Sandy Cruz had come from.
It wasn't long before she saw Sandy Cruz, who was cutting wood.
He was chopping pine trees, specifically longleaf pines, which contain up to eighty percent flammable resins and can easily catch fire even when soaked with rainwater.
They were ideal kindling material.
He had already felled two trees.
