ELLA

“Who are you?!” she yelled and looked in different directions. “Show yourself!”

Her voice echoed throughout the woods, and I looked at the sky to see that the sun had set, leaving a barely lit sky in its wake, which meant that we needed to keep going to arrive at the next town before it got too dark.

I wanted to continue talking and urge her to keep going when nothing happened for a moment, but just as I opened my mouth, the footsteps got louder and closer.

A few seconds later, the silhouettes of the two men I had seen at the bar and the woman who had...