Cave Part 2

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The hunters walked cautiously inside the cave, when they were inside what they found shocked them. There on the ground lay a girl, naked as a bird, maybe sixteen or seventeen for the looks of it. Clearly not hurt, she looked as if she had lived in these woods for a while. Her long, silver-white hair was tangled with twigs and leaves. Her body was lean but muscular. She was knocked out cold.

The hunters realized that the gas had put her to sleep. One of the hunters walked over to the girl and draped a jacket over her. That got the rest moving. They called in a helicopter with medics to transport the unconscious girl to the closest hospital. One of the hunters had to go with the girl to give a report. But before the headhunter's partner left, she spoke to him in a whisper. "You need to look around for an ID or something to identify the girl." The headhunter nodded, but silently cursed himself; I am the leader – I should have thought of that myself. But it's as if the girl mesmerized me, thought the hunter.

He watched as the chopper took off with the girl and his partner, and then gestured for his remaining team to go back into the cave with him. Inside they found nothing. No clothes, wallet, shoes, or even a blanket. I wonder how anyone could survive in this weather in the middle of the woods during late December, thought the headhunter.

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