Stuck in the Wild |The Wilds|

Then there were 6

Cassie Hart stumbled into the shelter carrying the water bottles. She had just been to the waterfall filling them back up and cleaning up. She felt much better cleaning in freshwater than in salt. The only problem was, that it was way colder than yesterday and since her hair was wet, it felt freezing out. 

"Hey guys," Cassie dropped the water bottles at the entrance and crawled into the shelter. "Hey Josh, thanks for guarding my jaguar pelt but can I it back now?

Josh reluctantly passed it towards her, she happily wrapped herself in it. Kirin was sitting in his usual corner with a tarp covering his legs. Cass crawled over there, ripped the trap off and settled in between his legs with her blanket. Once she was settled, he put the tarp back on. 

He flinched as her wet hair hit his neck, "Cass did you go swimming?"

She nodded, her mouth chittering so much it was hard to speak. 

"Did you not feel how cold it was outside?"

"I...I thought it would w...warm up," Cassie pulled her blanket closer. "What were y...you all talking a...about?"

"Oh Kirin was telling this joke about these nuns and..."

Bo was interrupted as Ivan started speaking, "It was categorically not funny. It's not particularly funny to tell a sex joke full of potentially triggering words when someone's just." Ivan snuck a look at Josh then continued. "When we're trying to create a safe space for everyone here."

"Ahhh that's bullshit," Kirin rolled his eyes. "He's fine. He laughed."

Josh nodded, "Yeah, yeah. I definitely laughed. No brag but I actually laughed the hardest."

"Yeah," Ivan wasn't buying it. "Okay yeah but I'm just saying..."

"Don't! Don't say something for like once in your life. I don't need anyone acting different and I don't need a safe space," Josh snapped.

Cassie shook as the air seemed to drop another ten degrees. She wasn't the only one who noticed.

"Yo, did it get even colder in here?" Scotty asked. 

"Fires out," Raf answered. 

"I'm on it," Kirin gently moved Cassie and got up. "J, where's the lighter?"

"I don't have it."

Scotty turned to Bo, "Bo, you've been organizing everything, You seen it around?"

"We've been feeding the same fire for the past couple of days. Haven't needed it."

"The pariah has it," Ivan muttered. 

"Hold on," Raf said. "How do we know that he has it?" 

Ivan and Kirin both jumped to their feet and made their way out of the shelter. 

"Wait!" Ivan demanded.

"What Taylor?" Kirin sneered. "You gonna tell me to chill? You're honestly gonna tell me to stand down when that sicko took whats ours?"

"Not even remotely Yeah I guess the cold day in hell thing is like happening on several levels here, cause right now we're on the same page."

Cassie and the others crawled out of the shelter, together the group marched into the jungle looking for Seth and their lighter. 

"What the hell are we doing?" Raf jogged after the group. "Are we not gonna talk about this?"

"What's there to talk about Rafe?" Kirin asked.

"He violated one of us, then all of us. It's zero tolerance from here on out," Ivan said.

"Fine but are not gonna take like two seconds to figure out what we're gonna do?"