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Winnie struggles on top of Rex, desperately fighting to keep the other girl beneath her. Hopefully Jesse will be able to get to the spring while she causes this distraction.
Rex begins to scream her brother's name, and Winnie elbows her hard, unable to change her grip in such a way as to simply cover the other girl's mouth. Winnie grunts from the strain of clinging to the struggling girl, whom simply continues to shriek her brother's name.
"Oh will you just shut up already?" Winnie snaps in annoyance.
"Roland!" Rex shrieked even more loudly, probably just to provoke Winnie.
"Rex?" Roland's voice echoes hesitantly through the woods.
"Get over here Roland!" Rex's voice comes out somewhere between a grunt and a snap.
Frustrated by the other girl's continued shouting, Winnie ground her elbow into Rex's back. "Just, Shut! UP!" She snarled, as she ground her elbow downwards.
Rex's voice continues to screech into Winnie's ears, but this time it is purely formed from pain, there are no words behind it.
Winnie grins grimly, and doesn't let up in driving her elbow downwards. As long as the action is effective she may as well use it.
Rex shrieks morph into sobs and Winnie finally begins to relieve the pressure on the other girl's back. She's pretty sure Rex won't be able to go anywhere for awhile, not if she's wailing like that from the pain. Winne does however, stay straddled over the Rex. She doesn't want to take the chance that Rex is really just faking and waiting for the moment she can stand up and strike back at Winnie.
After a short time Winnie realizes there are words to Rex's sobs, mostly the word, "Please" repeated over and over again. Winnie felt a bit of pity listening to it. She hadn't meant to the other girl quite so thoroughly.
Just as Winnie is considering climbing off of Rex after all, there is a rustle of brush and Roland stumbles into the clearing. He stares down at his sister in dismay. After a moment he turns his horrified expression to Winnie. "What did you do to her?" His voice is choked and terrified.
Briefly Winnie wonders how she is going to explain her way out of this mess. At least Jesse should have made it to the spring by now. I'm pretty sure I've bought him enough time for that. She thinks hopefully.
