Nina Vale: Huh? If you're talking about River appearing in my story, sorry but this isn't a crossover. If you're talking about River appearing in "Doctor Who," we all want to see more of her.

D.N.S Akina: Uh… are you asking a question?

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Chapter 5: Caught

Night had fallen on Sutos Island. All was quiet. The lights were out, animals were penned up, and everyone was asleep in their beds.

Well, not everyone.

Making its way to shore was a dolphin, with a figure holding on to its fin and letting the dolphin pull them across the water. When the dolphin couldn't go any further, the figure let go and started wading onto the beach. The dolphin stayed where it was as the figure walked away, waiting for its rider to come back.

The figure quickly, but carefully, made its way towards the town. It didn't plan to get that far; it was just logical to head that direction. The plan was to stop at any farms or houses it saw along the way and get whatever supplies it needed. It hated stealing from people, but it had no money and it couldn't show itself to others. If it could, it would have gladly worked for anyone willing to hire for a day. Sadly, that wasn't the case.

It came upon a farm fairly quickly. The farm was a decent size, with a barn, a few corrals, and a large garden. The garden was the figure's first stop. Using what little light the moon gave, the figure picked out ripe fruits and vegetables that it could easily eat raw and without any tools, and that it could put into the bag it brought and not have anything it picked be too squashed. That was mostly tomatoes, carrots, beans, and berries; the berries it ate immediately since it was starving.

The barn was next. Upon entering, the figure smiled. In several of the stalls were horses, its favorite animal. It walked quietly, not wanting to disturb the sleeping horses, but took the time to look at and admire each one it passed. It could see that they were well cared for, which made it think very well of the horses' owner and made it feel even more guilty about stealing from them. But the damage was done, and the only thing it could do was move forward.

Heading to the back of the barn where all the tools and equipment were stored, the figure took a long coil of rope and two knives in sheaths. It saw a small bundle of fabric near the floor behind a stack of hay bales and decided to take it. The clothes it was wearing would only last it so long, and it could find thread, needles, and scissors when it got back to the mainland. It laid down stomach-first on the bales and reached for the fabric, but exhaustion caught up to it. For just a moment, it closed its eyes. Having tried so hard for the past few days to not fall asleep, especially close to where people were, it couldn't hold out any more. Within seconds, it was asleep.

Fire was everywhere. The flames towered all the way to the high ceiling, burning everything in sight. The heat was so intense, one might think that they were in the heart of a volcano. The smoke was so thick; there was no oxygen at all. The figure tried coughing to get the smoke out, but, with each cough, it took a deep breath and only inhaled even more smoke. It crouched low to the ground, trying to make itself as small as possible. All of a sudden, the flames rushed at it.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The figure sat up quickly, looking around and trying hard not to fall off of the hay bales. Gasping for breath, it tried to clear the suffocating feeling from its lungs and the smell of smoke from its nose. Absolutely terrified and fully focused on calming down, it didn't hear the horses panicking a little bit or the people who came into the barn to settle them down. It only noticed when they entered the room it was in and shined a light in its face. Looking up, it saw two men; one that looked a few years younger than it and one that looked old enough to be the boy's father.

"What are you doing in here, miss?" The older man asked.

The figure, a young woman, didn't answer. She was still shaken from the nightmare she'd just had, and she knew that these people would find out what she had done. Sure enough, the boy noticed her bag on the floor and looked through it with his flashlight.

"Papa," he said, "this is our rope, and these are our knives. She has tried to steal from us." The older man looked accusingly at the girl.

"You think you can steal from us and get away with it?" he asked. When the girl didn't answer, he grabbed her arm and started dragging her out of the barn. "The law will take care of you."

The girl didn't put up a fight. She did stumble a few times because her legs were trembling, but the man pulled her back up, each time a little more harshly. The boy followed them. Looking around, the girl saw that she had been sleeping longer than she thought. The sun had already started to rise. What little light there was shined down on her, illuminating her long, light brown hair with a teal streak in the front on her right side that didn't come up all the way to the top of her head, green eyes hidden behind deep bags from too little sleep, and tear marks on her cheeks from crying. Her clothing consisted of a loose, off-white T-shirt, a pair of brown pants that looked a size too big for her held up by a worn, black leather belt, and black sneakers.

The group got to the main house, and a woman met them at the door. She looked sympathetically at the girl for a moment, but her attitude changed when her husband told her what the girl had tried to do. Using the phone that they had just got installed in their house, she made a call. The father pushed the girl into a chair.

"You stay right there," he told her. The girl didn't move.

The family waited in the room and watched her until a car pulled up outside of the house. Two soldiers came inside and listened as the family told them the story of what had happened. Their eyes widened a bit when they saw her and their faces looked a little shocked, like they recognized her and couldn't believe she would do something like this, but they quickly shook off those looks. After hearing the story, and looking inside the bag the girl had brought with her, they grabbed her arms and walked her outside. One soldier climbed into the driver seat while the other sat in the back with the girl to make sure she didn't try to escape.

It was a silent drive to the mansion. When they arrived, the soldiers escorted her to the dungeons and locked her in one of the cells, where she would wait until a decision had been made on what to do with her.

The girl had made no reaction to anything from the time she had been found, but, when she saw the bars of the prison cells, her eyes widened with fear and she tried to break away from the soldiers. But she was weak from a lack of food and sleep, and the soldiers were strong. They threw her into the cell and quickly closed and locked the door. They watched as the panicking girl tried in vain to open the door. As they were walking away, they heard her cry out.

"Please!" she shouted at them. "Don't leave me in here! Don't leave me alone!"

Her voice had started out loud, but got quieter the further away the soldiers walked. As soon as she could no longer hear the soldiers' footsteps, the girl collapsed onto the ground and started crying.

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How was that? Can you guess who the girl is? What's going to happen next?

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