Chapter 4
8 hours later Naomi awoke to Pepper nudging her. Naomi slowly opened her eyes, sat up, and said "good morning Pepper, I see your leg is feeling a little bit better." Naomi stood up and looked at the sky. She said "dawn again, we better get going Pepper. We need all the hours we can get." They began walking until Naomi saw tracks of a carriage grooved into the forest floor. She said "there Pepper, those tracks." They walked over to the carriage tracks and Naomi crouched down to them. She looked at them, saw a folded drawing, picked it up, unfolded it, and said "its my drawing, its my drawing to Jax." She put the drawing into her pocket and said "come on Pepper, these are the right tracks and we've got to follow them."
They walked for half an hour following the tracks until they heard coughing. Eha, Eha, hack, hack, they heard. Naomi stood in her tracks looking around but saw no one. Naomi began walking again until she heard coughing again. Naomi and Pepper stopped waking and Naomi yelled "who's there?" A raspy, withering voice yelled "help me, please help me." Naomi looked around, still did see anything, and yelled "where are you?" The same raspy voice yelled "help me, someone help." Naomi looked to the ground, saw foot prints, and she and Pepper followed them to a big tree. There they saw Alex leaned up against the tree holding his side, his hand stained in blood. Naomi ran over to Alex as Pepper followed her. Naomi kneeled down to Alex's level and cried "Alex what happened to you." He looked at Naomi with widened eyes and said "Naomi please run, he's here." Naomi cried "who's here Alex? Who's here?" Alex mumbled "run Naomi, get away from here!" Naomi said "no I'm not leaving you here to die." He touched Naomi's face
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