Randomness, eh?

Randomness II

"Rain," she called to no one, "It had to be raining when I get lost."

She trudged through the foliage of the wilderness. Her sense of direction had been tumbled since she took a fall near a boulder. She circled around a tree, perhaps hoping Father Luck would be on her side. 

It was then that she heard a friendly voice. She spun to him.

"Good afternoon," said the man - he wore a suit of deep emerald green, and a smile of bright white.

"Hello?" She said, her guard up.

"What are you doing out here?"

"I'm walking," she said, withholding her current state of being lost.

"No you aren't," he said, "You're wandering, hoping to a blind man that you'll find your way."

"Who are you?"

"My name is Gideon Bannister," he said with a verbal flourish. He leaned against a tree.

"I'm Anna Halaway," she said, stepping toward the man, who stood perhaps ten yards from her.

"It is a wonderful day to not know where you are," said Gideon. He nestled his shoe beneath a leaf and turned it over, smiling at the small gem beneath it.

Anna furrowed her brow, "What are you talking about?"

"Let go of yourself and enjoy where you are," said Gideon.

She took a deep breath, her eyes drawing themselves upward to the dew-smeared trees and golden-ringed clouds. She smiled, "It's beautiful."

"And dangerous," said Gideon with the blue gem from the ground now in the palm of his hand, "This part of the country often harbors bears, yes?"

"Yeah," said Anna, stealing a glance at her surroundings, "Are there any bears around?"

"Surely not, they're likely checking their territory. Male bears are very territorial, you see."

"Yeah," she said again, brushing blonde hair from her eyes, "But that's not a problem for me?"

He thought for a moment, "I was not implying that you are not in a bear's territory. I was only telling you that if a male Grizzly bear were to attack, that would be the reason."

She laughed to herself, "Where are you from?"

"Behind this tree, perhaps?" He walked behind a thick pine tree, one which stretched up for seventy feet. Anna walked around the tree to find him, but was faced with the trail she had been following, and the boulder she had fallen from.

"Huh."