Her, the adult. And her charge the child. She didn't question how she was all right with the control, with the unquestioning stance of this man. How she held his very fate, the fate of one who was otherwise a stranger - right in her hands. She'd long ago learned her answer.
Homura didn't waste time. She went about a dozen paces before she set to work, grabbing the items she knew she would need.
She had a plan. She knew what she needed to do.
The tent cloth came out with a flourish, though she had little intention of merely making a tent, which would have restricted the space for Sigma. He was hardly a small man, and if she went by the instructions the tent wouldn't fit over him. So she used the cloth to make a canopy top instead.
Using the pegs to fasten two ends on trees, and the metal rods, connected into long shafts, for the other two ends, which she tied on the shafts neatly with a single, right knot. She was done within minutes, and soon she was unrolling the sleeping bag on her for him.
After about ten minutes, it was finished. It was makeshift, of course, and quick, but it was sturdy and it would do. Quietly, she walked over to Sigma once more, carefully
"This will do, for a night or two," she spoke again at last, her voice hardly above a whisper compared to the driving rain. "I will fend off the vines, while you rest. Then, I think, we shall go from there."
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Her, the adult. And her charge the child. She didn't question how she was all right with the control, with the unquestioning stance of this man. How she held his very fate, the fate of one who was otherwise a stranger - right in her hands. She'd long ago learned her answer.Homura didn't waste time. She went about a dozen paces before she set to work, grabbing the items she knew she would need.
She had a plan. She knew what she needed to do.
The tent cloth came out with a flourish, though she had little intention of merely making a tent, which would have restricted the space for Sigma. He was hardly a small man, and if she went by the instructions the tent wouldn't fit over him. So she used the cloth to make a canopy top instead.
Using the pegs to fasten two ends on trees, and the metal rods, connected into long shafts, for the other two ends, which she tied on the shafts neatly with a single, right knot. She was done within minutes, and soon she was unrolling the sleeping bag on her for him.
After about ten minutes, it was finished. It was makeshift, of course, and quick, but it was sturdy and it would do. Quietly, she walked over to Sigma once more, carefully
"This will do, for a night or two," she spoke again at last, her voice hardly above a whisper compared to the driving rain. "I will fend off the vines, while you rest. Then, I think, we shall go from there."