Independent Puppets

Episode 1: The Man in the Woods [Part 2]

"What are we gonna do for this one tonight then?" Said Andrea later that night, once the pink sunset sky had grown much darker and the sun, nothing more than a glowing orange speck in the distance shrouded marginally by the clouds, was halfway down the sky, on its way towards the horizon. The trinity of friends had done as they'd discussed and, after watching some episodes of Hetalia: the Beautiful World on DVD, gone out into the woods surrounding their club building so that they could do some roleplay together to finish off the evening before having to go home. They had torches in their pockets right now just in case they needed them. 

"I don't know... maybe... we could do the comedy scenario with the time travellers that we did last time?" Said Eve, holding a small part of her mass of hair in place with her right hand because of a gust of wind blowing momentarily through the trees and the space around them. 

"Oh yeah I'd almost forgotten about that one! Also, what I'm about to say is a bit of a random idea that came out of nowhere, but why don't we maybe invite Arthur over the next time we meet up and do roleplay like this? The scenarios we act out might be more fun." The French-English young woman added her own suggestion. She was referring to Arthur Doyle, her boyfriend who she'd been in a relationship with for the last year and a half and who was originally from London but moved northwards into the Midlands when he was 19. By now he was 24 years old and he worked as an accountant.

"Oh Artie I love you, Artie I do..." Jenna began to sing jokingly, in the same way friends usually tease each other in a non-cruel way.

"Shut up..." Andrea rolled her eyes in this same joking way and smiled at how childish the bespectacled girl could be sometimes.

"...When we're apart my heart beats only for yooooooouuuuuu!" This aforementioned girl finished, with the blonde also not resisting joining in with the last part and both of them letting out a little bit of a laugh afterwards.
And then the 3 of them ran off a couple of meters in separate directions, so that they could make a dramatic entrance when they start the roleplay scene, and Eve was just about to run in when, during the split second in which she was turned the other way so that she could see where she was going when running off that short distance, she noticed something. To be specific, she thought she saw a living creature a little further away on the floor, in amongst some of the leaves strewn around.

It was a person's foot, sticking out from behind a tree.

"You guys..." Eve called over to the pair, who were wondering why she hadn't ran in with them yet to start the scene. "I think you should come over here..."

"What's up?" Said Jenna as they came over to her.

"Look." The middle-born one cautiously approached what she'd seen and pointed towards it, managing to look behind the tree and see the person who the foot belonged to.
They had to get out their torches and shine the light from them over him because it was getting dark and thus it was harder to make him out, but it seemed the person laying there on the ground, on his side and appearing to be unconscious, was a rather clean-cut man presumably in his late 20s or early 30s with short dark brown hair. The clothes he was wearing were a semi-formal grey jacket with a white shirt and black tie, and dark grey jeans accompanied by smart black shoes. On his jacket there was a small blue triangle on the left breast area and a matching pale blue armband on his right upper arm. 
What was most intriguing, however, was that it looked like there was some sort of small red disk on his right temple, but that was the least of the girls' concerns right now.

"What happened to this man?" Andrea spoke her mind. "What I mean is how did he end up out here all alone in these woods and knocked out?"

"Don't ask us, we were thinking the same thing." Eve replied, but she gasped out in surprise when she saw his head move ever so slightly just for a second, grabbing the attention of the 2 beside her in addition.