The camp suddenly turned into a mad rush of running children as everyone got ready to leave. Alice (and the Doctor, wherever he was at the time) had no idea what to do, and felt like she should be doing something. But of course, what she should be doing was a total mystery.

"You!" Rachel said, running back up to her "come with me, I've been put in charge of you"

"What for?"

"Don't know, don't care, and whatever Samuel says goes. Within reason of course, we wouldn't just go jump off a cliff randomly because he said so. Now come on!" She ran off with that and Alice had no choice but to follow.

After a minute the Doctor had caught up to her, and he sent a glance Rachel's way.

"You got one too?" he asked

"Apparently" she replied

"Oi!" a boy called, Jeff she thought he was called "less talking, more running. Thanks to you I can't go wolf and I'm not going to let that slow us down. COME ON!"

It wasn't long before the clearing behind them was showered with bullets.

After what seemed like ages the running finally stopped.

"Not far enough" Samuel said, addressing the entire group "we need to be on the move first thing in the morning. Get some sleep if you want it, but you'll probably regret it if you don't." Samuel turned to the Doctor and Alice "if you two want sleep, no one's stopping you, but you'll have to manage on the ground. Though if you'd rather go back and see if you can follow them back home or at least knock some sense into them, be my guest."

"I'd rather help getting you to the safe zone first" the Doctor said "especially if they've got guns."

"Not even proper bullets, I don't think" Samuel said "the most damage you'll get if you get hit is just getting knocked out, they don't want us dead. At least, I don't think they do. They might have changed tactics recently, we'd never know"

"Exactly why I need you at the safe zone first"

Samuel looked the Doctor over. "You are one strange man" he said finally, before going off to probably get some sleep himself.

"Helping children that probably don't even need help" Alice mused "he's right, you are strange."

"Yeah" the Doctor replied, sitting down on some random rock formation. Alice looked at him for a second before deciding to sit down next to him.

"You've lost too many haven't you?" she asked quietly after a moment. He didn't respond.

"You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to" she told him

"It's not just that" he said "but I feel like I shouldn't be here, like that something's going to go terribly wrong if I stay"

"We could always go, I'm sure they won't miss us"

"No, they probably wouldn't, but it just doesn't seem fair to leave them here."

"They've managed this long, I'm sure they can manage longer"

"But they're suffering for no reason, they don't have anything to hide, and it's not like it's their fault they were born half-wolf or whatever. It's not right."

"And apparently neither is staying here"

He didn't say anything.

"Look," Alice said "if you want to go, I'd come with. And not only because you're my ride back home." If I even want to go home, she added in her head.

"So you're saying that whatever I do, you're perfectly okay with it"

"As long it doesn't involve jumping off a cliff, yeah, I think I am."

He laughed, and soon enough Alice laughed too.

The next day was spent entirely on foot, and surprisingly no one complained. Not even the youngest few, which were somewhere between six and eight years old. Alice and the Doctor were nearly ignored, and neither of them was sure if that was good or bad. But it didn't really matter, everyone seemed to be going along like it was a normal day, despite the fact that they had two strangers in their midst.

Alice did happen to pick up quite a bit on all of the people in this group very quickly after one day also. She noticed within the first hour, at most, that Samuel and Juli liked each other. She also noticed that Allie was usually left on her own. Not only that, but Amy and Keith seemed to have a brother/sister relationship and it was perfectly understandable. They were the only two with wings. These were only few of many random things she picked up.

"Have you noticed" the Doctor said as he walked over "the traits of the fox people? It seems that they're incredibly different than wolf kids. Apparently, while having the ability to transform into a fox at will, they usually try and avoid doing so. And it seems that the ears and tails stay, even if they are in human form."

"You seem to be feeling better" Alice noted

"Still a bit… off… but I think I've settled alright"

"So the," she dropped her voice down to a whisper, "magic, isn't bothering you?"

"I still don't believe it's magic"

Alice shook her head at that comment. "If you keep that up, I think we might be forced to leave."

He started to say something, which probably led into some deep scientific explanation of why exactly he didn't believe in magic, but Alice didn't give him the chance. "Don't even bother bringing science into this" she said "you can call it whatever you like, but I think that magic, plain and simple, does it for me."

The Doctor rolled his eyes. "Humans" he sighed

Alice smacked him. "Don't you dare even think about calling me human!" she said, threateningly "I don't care how close a Hylian might be compared to a human, they're definitely not the same!"

"Sorry" he muttered

"You better be."