The air was dusty. Trees grew taller as both Josh and Gracy plunged deeper hopefully searching for a way out. Hours went by as darkness slowly settled in. The two found a cave ontop of a hill. They decided to camp there for the night because it was getting dark. The two hardly talked which. It was awkward but mostly to Gracy.
"Am going out to gather some wood. This place is going to be too dark to see inside once the sun sets.
Gracy agreed but told him to be quick. She confessed she was afraid of the dark. About thirty minutes passed. Josh returned with looking as blank as ever. Gracy was scanning the cave walls to see if she could find some cave drawings but she wasn't lucky
"Here the wood...now you do your part " Josh said throwing em down.
Gracy grabbed the woods taking some and arranging fhem in a circular motion. She took out a match box and lit up the wood. It took a while before the fire caught on. She sat down satisfied with herself. She didn't know the survivalist way to conjunction fire but a win is a win if you do it in your own way and make it work.
Josh sat at the other side of the fire opposite Gracy. He took of the trench coat remaining with his torn up white shirt which had blood stains.
"You need a bath," Gracy suggested opening up her bag.
"I spotted a river not far from here. I'll swing by tomorrow." Josh said switching back to silent mode.
Gracy look at Josh deeply. Josh notice but ignored her closing his eyes.
"Your weird. Probably the most weird guy I met since I came here."she said taking out two granola bars tossing on to Josh. He grabbed it sliding it to his trouser pocket.
"I don't eat that much.....I prefer granola bars for supper,so just bear with me.she said ripping the cover of her's,"so....why are you so silent?"she asked nibbling on her bar.
Josh still didn't feel the need to talk to her.
"You can ignore me all you want but it's just me and you here all night. Talk to me. To much thoughts kill leads to insanity."she said chuckling.
"What the hell do you wanna talk about then? We share nothing in common woman!" Josh blurted out.
"We won't know that unless we talk to each other... let me know you alittle,you saved me from God knows what after all."she said in dominated by a desperate tone from her voice.
"..... what you wanna know? Make it quick cause I wanna sleep"he said feeling pittyfull for her persistence.
"What's your second name?"she asked thought the question seeming a joke her expression dead serious. Josh looked at her awkwardly, but complied
"Trixa. Next question." He said
"As I thought.... I've heard that name from someone" she said her looking true to her words.
This instantly raised an alarm on Josh's side.
"How do she know about me? Did that fucker already mess with my family secrets????" he thought panicking but in a composed way.