Ellie is sleeping peacefully downstairs in the garage while I'm on guard up stairs. The lodge gives us a good view of the long, snow covered street . My rifle was slung over my shoulder and my arms under my armpits.
The road was quiet, until a group of armed men walked down it.
"Ellie," I half yelled running down the stairs, "We got company."
"Shit, they tracked me." She was already prepping Callus.
"They?"
"I met a couple of men when I went hunting. I traded a deer I killed for the penicillin."
"Ok, that explains a lot. Now how are we gonna get rid of them."
"They don't know that you and Joel are here so I'm going to distract them. Then come back."
She was about to leave as I grabbed her arm, "Promise me that you'll come back."
"I promise."
"Go, but if you're not back in two hours I'm going to look for you."
"Ok. Lets go Callus."
I watched as she rode Callus out with a quiet trot.
"I got her!" One of the men yelled as he grabbed her only fifty meters away. He can't have lasted long as I heard a male scream of pain.
"Kill her!" another yelled, "I don't give a shit about what David says."
She galloped of down the street as the men fired upon her.