"Stay silent, I'm a friend."

I'm on the ground, someone is holding me down. Panic? Friend? What?

"Keep low and walk right."

I start walking, bent forward so that the grass covers me. I mean, okay,
\ if he's a friend he sounds like he has a plan and furthermore there's some
\ kind of urgency going on. If he's not a friend, I can't really get away from
\ him anyway. Or can I? All I can do is stand up again, but to what effect
\ exactly? There's nobody around. I keep walking.

He stays behind, silent. In fact, he's so silent I can barely hear his movement.
\ What is this, Red Dawn? Wolverines? Fucking Russia, I knew it!

I try to move with less sound as well, but it's not that easy, at least for me.
\ Fuck that, if he's a friend with a plan, said plan should include me not being
\ a ninja, all right? I drop the act and walk normally again. No reaction
\ from behind either way.

Soon there are trees, I guess after all [[the forest it is.|next]]

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