I tried to ignore the jiggling of my breasts as I ran, pushing past people who gave me dirty glares. People stared at me oddly as I ran past, but I pa...d no attention, to intent on my own overwhelming panic and confusion. Finally I wore down, not knowing where I was. I stopped running and starting walking, panting hard from the exertion. I just wandered around, until I found a small park, where I sat down on a bench, trying to catch my breath. Looking around, I saw that it was starting to look. There was a story about a fatal fire in the college area. I was actually reading about my own death."We have a friend in the coroner's office, who shares our interests, and he was very willing to help. The body was a John Doe who fit your general description," said Thomas.Nikki then handed me a second newspaper. I initially failed to notice the significance of it, until she pointed to the date. It was 3 months later. I was stunned, as I knew that I had been here for over 90 days."So you can see. I had heard her friends call her braniac and kid her about her awards. Had we been closer in age I would have already asked her out but I had been taught to respect my elders, not ask them for a date. We sat in a booth and ordered then I introduced myself. ‘I know who you are,’ she said. ‘But I don’t know who you are.’ She looked at me in silence for a while then said, ‘I’m Andrea.’ I already knew her name was Andrea as I had heard her friends call her that. ‘Andrea, nice name. Are you. We rode down a dry gully towards the sacked village between the wooded hills. I suspected we would be a mile away before the raiders searched our ambush position. Knowing how the raiders treated captives I was determined to save those still alive in the fishing village.We rode behind the hills keeping away from the local road that connected the fishing village and the market village. Our ambush might cause the mounted scouts to travel back towards their ships to warn the men about us and I.