Shady

Jerica watched the woman take the first few steps, and then sighed deeply. This was going to take foreverrrrrrrrr . She wandered back and forth, looking at the landscape. There ...

Jerica flailed her arms to stay balanced, stumbling a few times before catching a fresh piece of shale to slide down on. She staggered as she got to the bottom, ...

At least she could be quiet. That was nice. Jerica led the way, making sure she had a vague idea of how near she was behind her, in case the ...

Jerica nodded, sighing. They were in a game where neither of them knew the rules. Good thing she was used to making her own rules. "Alright, then." She crumpled her ...

"Oh, I have no doubt that someone is enjoying this, and there will be consequences once I figure out who it is," Jerica growled, running her fingers through her hair ...

"Well do you want to do exactly what the people who kidnapped us want us to do?" Jerica scoffed, shaking her head. "I'm not in the mood to get shanked ...

Jerica also pushed herself to her feet. That made sense. The start of the path -- heading in that direction. But, she still didn't know who had brought her here, ...

Jerica studied the map in silence. It was clear they needed to follow the red line, but it was anyone's guess where the line started or ended. For all she ...

Jerica pushed herself to her knees in an instant, coming closer so she could look at the woman's paper. A map... not that it was particularly helpful, since there were ...

"Oh, yeah, real consoling," Jerica grumbled, pressing her palms against her eyes. Maybe the woman was just stupid. It was that, or she was being intentionally dense. "Helps us a ...

" Whose military?" Jerica sighed, rubbing her face. "People don't just send their military after you if you didn't piss them off... maybe it was a noble..." Most of them ...

Jerica groaned and pushed herself up to a sitting position, crisscrossing her legs as she looked the woman over. She wished she wouldn't challenge the universe. It seemed like every ...

Jerica kept her eyes closed, panting for breath. Wherever they were, it seemed that they were in the same boat -- no idea where they were, or why they were ...

Jerica's stomach lurched as she realized that the woman did not, in fact, know what she was doing. Still, she managed to recover in time. Jerica was grateful to get ...

Jerica grunted, muttering curses as the woman kicked her in the head. No good deed ever went unpunished. Finally, the woman got a grasp on something overhead and hauled her ...