I managed to seewhat looked like a semi truck out of the corner of my eye. I closed mystinging eyes, as consciousness left me again.-I awoke the next...time, another thousand years later, in an ambulance. Idon't think I even opened my eyes, because I don't remember seeinganything. I heard plenty of voices, bits and pieces of words andsentences. "Hemorrhaging", that one was my favorite. I knew I was amess, my entire body felt like it was exposed. If you've never had yourflesh flayed and torn. Repeat as necessary. He reached the bottom and walked toward the slightly overgrown shed which was his quarters and had once been the lookout tower before his time, hurrying more now because he was wet enough to feel the bite of the wind. He thought about his dwindling supply of food, which mouth-watering combination of soups he’d dine on tonight, since he intended to eat them all so that he didn’t have to haul them out with him when he left the next day. And also because they were all that he. She turned as I drew near and I froze enraptured by her beauty. No words came to my lips and I could barely breathe. It was as if the vision of her had taken all other thoughts except to just look at her. "Is that for me?" She asked and I only nodded mutely. Her smile was like pure magic and I felt my heart skip. "Thank you." She said accepting the coat as I moved to put it on her, wondering how I was able to move from where I had been rooted a moment before.The coat helped her warm up a. I didn't spring the fact that I had a new traveling companion; I figured they were worried enough without me telling them I picked up a stranger!My new companion turned out to be a pretty damn good cook and as we ate we talked just getting more acquainted. She told me she had been with Tommy for a couple of years and at first, things were good. But about six months into their living together, he began to change.He began taking control of her and treating her like shit. She wanted out but.