A Swords Tale: The Beginning ( Postponed)

Chapter 3: The Forest

As the morning light shone overhead, Sapphire quickly got down from her tree and starts to pick up her remains of being there, or ever having a camp during the night. She put her things away as she new she would be hiding more than running, of course she didn't know her way around. It was all unfamiliar forest territory, but her luck of guessing, had kept it's promise of keeping her safe. The police were still after her anyway, so no point in shedding blood unless she needed to, but most of the time, she did shed blood. She grabs her deer skin and puts it in her bag , amazingly, she still has room for other things. Like if she is lonely, she has her teddybear her parents gave her. She decides to keep the charcoal for starting more fires in the future and checks to see if she still has her swords. Nodding with approval that they , her swords, haven't fallen out of her scabbard at all last night. She liked to check just in case she needed to know something happened. She saw the snow, over months, turn into the muddy ground where grass was slowly appearing. Spring was here at last and that would make it easier to hunt than in the winter. Every animal sleeps during the long,hard and cold winter. Unlike her, she could stand cold weather for long periods of time with her long sleeved shirt and long blue jeans. She had another shirt with shorter sleeves but the exact same color of her blue long sleeved shirt. She never remembered why she had that ,but she did wear that in the summer to keep cool and to not have heat stroke all the time. She also cut her hair shorter in the spring as it grew back to its normal size by winter or fall.

As she finished scavenging her campsite ,throwing everything everywhere so she won't be hunted, only eight minutes had went by and decides to head into private property. She runs not looking behind her, not even wanting to see the police again. If the police weren't here, she could live in peace and not ever see a drop of blood again. That would be nice , but nothing is that simple. She would have to go to court, of course she had to be caught, and without a lawyer , she had to go to jail. She had went through this many times before. She was her only friend in jail, everyone had bullied her, everyone targeted her, and no one cared.

She mutters to herself,"Focus! You need to be on the matter of hand." She shakes her head clearing her mind and she tries focus ahead making landmarks in case she needed to go back. She came close a fence and stopped as it said ,no trespassing, and she knew it meant police were called.

She bursts with laughter and smiles ," That's everyday for me, bud!" She climbs it and jumps it looking if she dropped anything ,sees nothing, then bounds forward . As she sees not a lot of trees and more light dropping through onto the property, she sees a big red farm house. She notices it  in a gorge but with a small stream surrounding it. The wide canyon had jagged rocks leading all the way towards the bottom. It had protection of all the crops and animals they had. Thinking it would be a good idea to stay on top of the hill as the property was rocky all the ways down and the house lies on the bottom. If she had gone down , it would be a pain getting back up the hill.

She planned a route around and started to run around the top of gorge going the hard way. She looked down and saw walls of rock and dirt that were very steep , definitely hard to climb up. She stepped away from the hills slightly so she couldn't fall down them, and probably break something. She sighs and keeps pace and sees she is one fourth of the way done. She keeps running fueled by the shade every few steps the shadows of the trees gave over the beating sun shining through the leaves. She keeps going seeing a kid lying in the field on a pile of hay . His mangy short black hair with a dog that saw Sapphire running on there property. She hides behind the trees still running, as she was near the hill and now far away send hiding in the shadows.

The boy open his bright brown eyes and looks as she stops running and hides behind a thick tree trunk not picking up any voices except for,"Go get em'." She turned and saw the boy push the dog with his foot and the dog set off quickly, jumping up a slope. Why didn't I use that?