Extend the Story - Add a Room

You find her in your rifle sight, the crosshairs centering on her shoulder. You're waiting for her head.

"Come on down," You tell her. "I'm one hell of a shot and I doubt very much that you can just keep outrunning me."

"I don't think so," She returns bluntly.

"If we work together we can get farther in this thing," You reason.

"That sounds pretty accurate," She says. "Lower you rifle and I'll come down."

You slowly lower the barrel of your rifle until it is angled towards the ground.

She takes two quick steps and leaps away to another tree branch, headed down stream with the current. She continues to lead to a few more branches.

You curse inwardly and look to the sky. You glance back the way you came and spot something high up in one of the trees, a good dozen feet higher up than where the woman had been running. The object appears to be a pack of some sort; you can't be sure though as most of it is blocked out by the leafy tree branch. Whatever it is, it hangs from a strap.

You glance after the woman who is still hopping away through the trees. She isn't so far ahead that you can't reach her...

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