Problems

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Reader's POV:

"What the fuck do you mean, Lenny?", Arthur spoke in a rather pissed off tone, with a hint of annoyance. She couldn't have of gotten that far, she's wounded after all, right?

She gasped for air outside the camp near a tree, sitting down and looking down at her wound. Sojhi shook her head, frustrated. "What the hell am I doing?", she muttered, swiftly brushing through her hair with her hand. She stood up again, continuing to walk, sighing, before deciding to try and whistle for her horse.
To her luck, her horse approached and she tried her best running towards it, never has she been happier to see her horse. She mounted it and patted her neck.
"Take me home, girl." Sojhi said, dropping her head onto her neck. The horse did as it told, starting to trot away from where their camp was.

"Alright, Micah, Bill, Javier and Sean you go look near Saint Denis where we first found her." Dutch ordered, Arthur leaning against his tent nervously.
"Sadie, Lenny, John and Charles you go look near Rhodes. And Hosea, Arthur and me will look in the swamps." Dutch continued, 'gesturing' his plan as he talked, "She knows where our camp is. If she tells the Law on us, we're fucked and we have to fight. Also, the others, if anyone shows up, kill them." Dutch finished, emphasising the last two words. "Let's ride!" Dutch called out one last time, as half of the gang mounted their horses and did as they were told.
Arthur was quiet on the ride through the swamps, then, Hosea broke the silence.
"What's wrong, Arthur?"
"Hmm.." Arthur hummed, "Nothing.", "Are you sure? You're really quiet." Hosea asked again, bracing his horse softly so he could talk to Arthur better.
"Well, before she was gone I said something rather... messed up." Arthur sighed, looking over to Hosea. "And that was?"
"I said she's a spotted freak."
"Hm. I'm sure we'll find her, boy." Hosea comforted, riding closer and grabbing his shoulder for a moment, yet gently.

Brett had been riding what felt like forever, but something must've been there, because she started to feel nervous, and that woke Sojhi up.
Sojhi looked around for any predators quickly, and then she spotted a wolf. But before she knew it, Brett buckled her off and ran into the woods. The young woman searched for her revolver, and as she found it the wolf was right in front of her, growling, she aimed at the wolf, yet her hands were shaky. Then, there was a loud peng! And there was the wolf, laying dead in front of her, out of the shadows came a ginger-haired young woman with forest green eyes, freckles and a up rather large scar across her left eye, grinning at her with Brett's reins in her hands.
"Well, well, well. I'll be damned. Sojhi fucking Goremane." She said.
"Hell. Ruth? Ruth Jones?" Sojhi answered, looking up at 'Ruth.'

Sojhi's POV:
I look up at Ruth, looking up at her confused. Has she searched me? Or did she just randomly find me? After all those years?
"Damn right. That's me." Ruth said, as she looked me up and down and her grin slightly faded, turning into a frown. "The hell happened to you? Who did this?"
I sighed, gazing up at her slowly. "Some police officer.. Heard about that massive boat ride with the poker and party and shit? Yeah. That's where so much shit happened." I respond, letting out a dry laugh. She stared at me for a moment, before opening her mouth to say something: "Explain, madam."

Charle's POV:
"We looked everywhere, Dutch. Nobody of us picked up a trace." Bill said, I looked at John and he gave me a slight nod. "We found a trail. It was from a horse, near the camp. We followed it for a while, but then we heard a wolf and our horses got nervous. We think it was her." I say, I feel Arthur's eyes dart over to me, with a glare. "Lead me there, Charles." He said, so I shrug: "Sure."
"I'll join you two." Hosea chimes in, I look over at Arthur and he nods.

Reader's POV:
"Follow me then." Charles hums, going back to Taima once again, and mounting her.
They've ridden for a while, before they approached where they heard a wolf earlier. "Here it is." Charles spoke soothingly, looking around the ground for any trails. "2 Horse trails. And a person was sitting here, that means the wolf was right in front of them." Charles said again, jumping off of his horse and checking if the trace was fresh. "It's fresh. And it must've been her. Blood." He pointed towards it, then mounting Taima again. "What if someone took her? There's another horse trail." Arthur chimed in, and Charles just hummed, as he shock his head. "If we'll follow the trail, we'll find it anyways." Hosea said dryly. Arthur exhaled, before they rode after the horse trails.

"That was, quite something. You told me there. Why didn't you stay with us?" Ruth asked, looking over at Sojhi. "Too much bad memories." She replied, her head locking on the neck of her horse as she patted it.
"You got a new horse. What happened to Sundance?" Sojhi spoke up, changing the topic after quite an awkward silence. "Sundance? She got killed. I grieved quite a while, but hey, I got Spirit now. My favourite boy in the world.", "That's good. I'm happy to hear you're happy."
There was another awful silence going on, before they heard horses approaching, about 3. They quickly reacted and Sojhi gestures for Brett to get into the small area of woods, before looking through the trees to try and see who it was. She panicked a bit and looked at her friend, who understood her worry, Ruth nodded and Sojhi jumped off the horse, leaving Brett with Spirit and Ruth.
The 3 men went around the corner and found Ruth on the horse there alone. With Brett's reins in her hand. "Do you know who this horse belongs to?" Ruth asked, acting confused, as she inspected the 3 men. Arthur gazed over at Charles. "No, Ma'am." Charles responded, looking at the horse, Arthur chimed in: "Oh, but I know. A fellow girl.. she's wounded and ran away from home. She kind of looks like a cow.. You know? White spots. And she has pink-ish hair."
Ruth immediately pointed her two revolvers at Arthur and Charles at the insult, leaving out Hosea who was in the middle, the 3 pointed their guns back. "Don't do nothing dumb." Ruth said. Hosea chuckled dryly. "You're alone. We're three. We can easily win against you."
"You so sure of that?", a familiar voice said behind them, Arthur looked over his shoulder, spotting Sojhi who was pointing her gun at Hosea, the one left remaining. Arthur looked back at the unfamiliar girl, then over at Charles, nodding and putting his hands up in the air slowly, just like Charles. Hosea looked confused for a few moments, before also putting his hands up in the air. "Good. Now get off of them horses." the ginger-haired girl said. They slowly got off of the horses.

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Charles groaned, struggling to break free from the ropes. Ruth chuckled, "Keep struggling." She spoke soothingly, before putting on the fire. Sojhi glanced at Arthur, Charles and Hosea who were tied at the tree. "Sojhi, I'm sorry for-" Arthur tried saying, but he was cut off by Sojhi who just responded coldly: "Save it. I'm just a spotted freak after all, right?"
Ruth let out an annoyed sigh at their conversation. "Damn, who comes up with that?", she said, gazing over at the trio. "Like that's really stupid.. And disrespectful, don't ya' think?" Arthur frowned. "I'm sorry. I am. I didn't think about my words." He started, Sojhi listened and Ruth turned back around to continue working on the campfire. "I- Please forgive me and let me take you back to camp. Just as long as your wound is fixed. I don't want you to die."  He continued, his voice breaking a bit at the end as he let out a sigh. Sojhi let out a sigh. "Okay.", Ruth on the other hand choked on the coffee she had just started drinking because of her words.
"You've got to be kidding me.."

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