Guy peered around the trunk of the tree just a little bit more and saw her lower the mini-spear. Whew.

They still weren't out of the woods yet, though.

"I think I'm still going to be," he said softly and the edge of his shoulder rolled visibly as he gave a little shrug. "But then I'm sorry for all of us anyway."

He swallowed thickly.

"What's your name? It'll be a lot easier for us to not have this turn into a disaster where we hurt each other if we know each other's names."