Just a little something that popped into my head while I was playing with my daughter today. I hope you enjoy.

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"I'm stuck inside this rut that I fell into by mistake."

Relient K : Be My Escape

Prologue

Delaney

I am not a damsel in distress.

I'm not, I'm not, I'm not.

I will admit, however, that I might be out of my element here. Just a bit. See, I'm not exactly sure where I am. Worse than that, I'm fairly certain that where ever here is, it isn't…well, it isn't my world. I like to think that I have a fairly brilliant mind, but even if I was a complete Neanderthal, I probably would have known something was off when the wolves that were chasing me started to yell at me. No, not bark or howl. If I had meant bark or howl, that's what I would have said.

I mean yell.

"For crying out loud, stop running!"

"Honestly, she's going the wrong way!"

"If I catch her, I'm going to bite her!"

"Get down here, girl!"

That last one was because I scrambled up into a tree as fast as my tired legs could carry me. The wolves circled around the trunk and I felt like an idiot. They had just treed me like a squirrel. A particularly stupid squirrel, since I wasn't exactly able to jump to another tree. I'm good. But I'm not that good.

"Get down here!"

I let out a shaky laugh and looked down into the angry, glittering eyes and slavering jaws of a dozen wolves. "No, thanks. I'm good where I am."

I repeat, I am not a damsel in distress.

I'm just a chick in way over her head.

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