When the two finally made it to the area where Sandy had been crawling about when Shadow found her it was nearly mid-day and Sandy's stomach was growling. She considered a few times of pulling off her pack to fish something out, but Shadow's pace didn't slow despite when hers did, and she honestly didn't want to deal with putting the heavy pack back on herself as her body was still aching badly. Shadow's pace finally did slow a little when they finally came to a still quite muddy area.
"I found you right here." Shadow pointed to a spot of kicked up earth up ahead of them. "It seems you came from that way." Shadow walked on ahead of her as she stopped and leaned against the side of the steeper hill they were walking between. "You seem to have fallen from up there." He called back to her.
"Great. Now I just gotta climb back up and I'll be on mah way." Sandy closed her eyes as she took a few large breaths before pushing herself back to following the man she had met only hours ago.
"Unlikely." Shadow looked at her a bit irritated.
"Waddya mean?" She looked at him a bit worried. "Don't tell me it's unclimbable."
"There is nothing up there." He looked back up the area the woman had clearly fallen from due to the kicked-up mud that was flung about on her way down.
"That's impossible. I feel through right where the door was at up top!" Sandy now started to unbuckle her bag and let it fall to the ground behind. She then crawled back up to the spot where her exit should be. It was nothing but a dirt wall with a hole slightly larger than herself dug in it that extended maybe two feet. "This can't be right."
"You must have gone up there after becoming delirious from your wounds and fallen again."
"Then where did I come from?" She looked down at him finding herself becoming irritated too. "I don't see anywhere else that looks like it's been disturbed recently."
Shadow sighed and crossed his arms as he looked around them. "I don't have time for this."
"By all means! Don't let me keep ya. I'm more than capable of figuring this out on my own." Sandy now sat down by her hiking backpack and started to dig through it. Maybe some food would help clear her head.
"I'm not leaving you alone in my territory." Shadow snapped as his patients seemed to become exhausted.
"I don't understand why you're so worried about me being alone out here. It ain't like I'm gonna be stealing nothing." Sandy pulled out a sealed silver package and opened it before quickly starting to consume the bisect like contents it held inside.
"You have no right to be out here. I don't know you and I don't trust you." Shadow motioned for her to get back up as he started to walk back the way they had come from.
"Ya don't know me and don't trust me. I can get dat, but if yer such a leery fella why did ya bother taking me back ta yer camp and letting me sleep only feet away from ya?" She pressed as she closed her pack after finishing her food and started to strap it back on.
"Because I don't know you, and don't trust you." He stopped and turned to scowl at her as she made her way up behind him. "There is a town three days travel to the south of my cave. We'll head there first thing tomorrow, so you can be their problem. I wasn't going to go there and trade for another few weeks, but getting rid of you is worth the lost."
"I'm enjoying yer company, too." Sandra responded sarcastically while continuing to follow him back towards his dwelling.