Rabbit Time - Night 4

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Oksana and Helen finished skinning the rabbits and then Oksana cut three of them up. She took the fourth one and boiled it so that she could get the meat off of it and have some pulled meat.

"Are we going to be heading out any time soon?" Priscilla asked.

"Why would we? This is a gold mine of supplies. We have all the meat we could wish for and if we set up a dew catcher, we can have plenty of fresh water. With the garden of spices, we could practically live here." Helen said.

"Although we could, at some point we do need to try to leave." Oksana said. "We need to try and get out of this forest, not hold up in it. Eventually, the weird things of the forest will start to close in on us and then we will be boxed in."

"Why are you trying to leave so fast?" Helen asked.

"How many times do I have to tell you that this place is suspicious and creepy and I don't like being here?"

Helen rolled her eyes, tired of Priscilla's nagging about the forest. "Look, you told me that you followed me because you trusted that I was the best person who would know how to survive this forest, right? Well, now you're with two of the best people who would know how to survive this forest because you've got Mrs. Blount with us now. What more proof do you need that you're going to be okay?"

"I saw something really weird last night, you know? While you two were snoring away, there was some weird shit happening."

"Like what?"

"I saw those rabbits do a friggin blood ritual in mourning of their comrades and they did something. I can't really explain it."

"You said that you couldn't sleep last night, right? Maybe instead you were in and out of consciousness and were having a lucid dream."

"Never in my wildest dreams could I have made that shit up."

Helen just shook her head and went back to talking with Oksana. Priscilla sighed and just sat to the side, pulling her legs up to her chest and wondering what she should do. She wanted to leave because she didn't trust what happened last night but she was not savvy enough to leave the only two people who were capable of helping her.

As she sat there hoping to find a solution soon, she watched Oksana and Helen having fun with the cooking of rabbits. She wished she had paid a little more attention in science class and also outdoor ed so that she could do this by herself. She vowed that if she was able to get out of the forest, she would take a course and learn how to survive on her own. She knew that things weren't right but no one believed her and if she had some sort of skill, she'd be able to just up and leave them and find a way to survive on her own. Helen turned to look at her for something and Priscilla made a face.

"What? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Did you always have buck teeth like that?"

"Buck teeth? I don't have buck teeth."

Oksana looked over and Priscilla made a face at her too.

"What is it?"

"You have buck teeth too."

Oksana and Helen looked at each other and Helen turned her head a little.

"Hey, she's right. You look like your teeth are longer in the front." She told her teacher.

"I don't really know what you mean, but she's right about you as well."

They turned to look at Priscilla and they both pointed at her. Priscilla gasped, touching her teeth and realized that her teeth were longer than normal as well. The students both looked at Oksana for answers and she shrugged, in complete confusion herself.

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