"Jason... I don't think it would be a bad id-dea if we started making our way back to the road n-now," Edith suggested through shivers.

"And then what?"

"I don't know! But it'd be better than this - I'm g-going to freeze."

"Fine."

Slowly the both of them got up from the crunchy undergrowth of the forest. "Oh..." Edith remembered her feet were bare and looked down at them. "It's ok M'lady." Jason bent down, hooking his arm around the back of her legs he picked her up swiftly into his arms and began to step through the forest bed looking towards the road. That direction must be right... of course.

"Bernes! PUT ME DOWN."

"look we can have this endearing argument all night long - I'm only carrying you because you'll slow us down. Okay?"

"Which way are we even going?"

"The right way. I think."

"BERNES!"

"Sorry, look, I'm sure it was this way, we don't have much choice."

"Oh," Edith sobbed, "what's the time?"

"I don't know. But I would guess it somewhere past two in the morning."

Edith sobbed again. "That's almost four whole hours until daybreak. WHAT are we going to do?" Edith muttered off into sniffles. Jason rolled his eyes emphatically and shifted her weight over his shoulders so he wouldn't have to hear her never-ending woes. After half an hour, they didn't seem anywhere nearer the road than they had set out.

"I hate this. This is ghastly horrible. I'm going numb!"

"Oh it's horrible for you - is it? You're not the one who'll be blamed for any of this, in the papers neither. You'll still have your job after this - oh I forgot! You don't need a job! Because you -" Jason shifted Edith's weight again, "- will never - need a job. You're the one who'll be pardoned by the police don't forget, and you'll have showers of relieved cries and concern when we get back. And a nice warm cosy bed. So - in the nicest may possible, shut up M'lady."

"...I'm sorry. But I- I'll talk to Pappa and-"

"It won't make any difference. Your father will need someone to blame - and that someone - will be me." Jason carried on through the cold night in silence.

"... it really couldn't get any worse could it?" Edith sighed in remorse, her body was limp. Just then the heavens opened, cold buckets of water began pouring through the trees and onto the both of them.

Jason stopped and closed his eyes. "Now what was that I said about shutting up?

"Oh no! Just put me down - we'll never find our way in this!"

Bernes threw the both of them under a thin pine tree as they were pelted at by bullets of icy water.

"Jason! If we don't survive the night, I just want to say that I am SO sorry for all of this!" Edith began to shout through the rain.

"...I don't like you." Jason closed his eyes and let the cold seep into his bones and pull him into the lull of sleep as Edith sobbed her way into oblivion on his shoulder.