Full Summary:
Colleen had seen a girl in the streets in town but didn't know who she was. She asked Mathew if he knew her & it turns out that nobody knows her. When Sully tries to approach her & ask where she's from, she shoots him & runs off into the woods. Who is the girl? Will Sully be okay? And what about the bodies of four men found in the woods? Is this girl a victim herself?
Nobody Knows Her:
The Woods:
She tried getting away so many times, but it didn't matter how many times she tried, it never happened. They wouldn't let them out of there sight, let alone leave her alone for any period of time. When she went to the restroom, they were always there, watching her, making sure she couldn't run. She had managed to get ahold of the gun while they were all passed out drunk that night. She knew that this was the only way she was going to be able to get away—while they were drunk.
She cut through the ropes binding her hands behind her back using a sharp rock, and then very slowly, got up. She walked around towards the men and packed a horse up with anything she thought she would need. She moved the horse away from the others and tied its reins to a tree. Then she found four large rocks and brought them back to the camp, one by one. When all the rocks were next to each of the men, she made sure the gun was secure in her waistband just in case she needed to use it, then started picking the rocks up. She let the rocks fall onto the heads of every one of them, making sure that they were completely dead before moving onto the others. So far, she didn't have to use the gun.
When she was done, she went around and collected there weapons and threw them in the river they had been camping by. Then she went to the horse she had tied to the tree a few yards away and got on. She knew that she had to get away from the campsite as quickly as possible, but also knew that she couldn't leave to quickly for fear that someone was watching her and what she had just done. She moved the horse forwards a little and then edged it into a trot before finally leaving the campsite.
When she was fully away from the site, she broke the horse into a gallop and headed anywhere but there. She found a town during the night and stopped in the woods some ways away just in case she needed to get out without being caught. She grabbed an empty saddle bag and headed into town, looking for anything that had been left out, unattended by unsuspecting people. Once she had gotten all that was left out she went back to the horse and tied the saddle bag back onto it, then waited for morning, when she could be the victim again.
The Town: Morning:
She had kept the horse tied in the woods so that she could make a quick escape if necessary but had wandered back into the town and had found a bench outside a building labeled the clinic to sleep on. She wanted to make sure that (just in case the men weren't dead) they couldn't take her without any witnesses to what they were doing. She woke just before dawn and made her way over to the general store, walking slowly. The town was already starting to stir and come to life.
About and hour later, she saw a few people riding into town via wagons and horses and wondered who they were. Not knowing, she tried to mind her own business but knew that people were already starting to stare and talk about her. She herself knew those stares and talk. They always talked when the men had brought her into town and wanted her to do something for them. She had hated it. They thought that she wouldn't get into trouble because she didn't look like the half Indian that she really was. She was also half white.
Her mother had been a Lakota Sioux and her father had been a white settler who had saved her from being sold and beaten. She had been kidnapped as a little girl, shortly after her parents had been killed by the Army for not living on the Reservation even though her father was white. They had taken everything they had owned, even though all of the cattle and horses had already been branded with the family initials. Now, she saw one girl and boy looking at her. They were talking to a man and woman who were probably there parents. She headed out of town, back towards her horse; she needed to get away before the men were found.
Someone grabbed her and she swung around, the gun in her hand. She pulled the trigger without even realizing that she had grabbed it from her waist band. As soon as the gun went off and as soon as the man hit the ground, she spun around and was in the woods before anyone could catch her. She as on her horse and edging the horse into a gallop before anyone could come after her. She looked back only once to know that she was about to get into a whole lot more trouble then she had ever been in….