“Didn’t you realize you had to pull me along for half of it?” She asked with a smile, but it was getting hard to focus on her powers to keep the bandages cool. “Alena, if they do come get us I need you to kill me before they take me back. I don’t fear death, but I want to die free, not trapped in a cage.” She said softly. If she thought like that it was so easy to fear nothing, because what was left for her to be afraid of? She could see how on edge Erika was. “They are probably going to hunt all night for us but then it will slow down near dawn, then they will get organized, but that will take them a few hours. That’s when we will keep going. So it’s best if you try to rest.”

Honestly Alena was just trying to make up something that sounded good. She had no idea what would actually happen, but she knew that they wouldn’t get very far unless they rested and actually allowed their bodies to recover. “I will stay up for a while to keep watch, then you can do the same while I rest.”