"How hungry are you from a scale to one to ten?" Rick asks Carl

"15" Carl replies with a small laugh

Rick looks at Michonne "28"

"Gwen?" Rick says.

"I'm actually at the point I'm so hungry, I don't actually feel hungry" I tell him with a grin and it's true! It's like my stomach has shrunk to the size of a raisin

Rick chuckles then stand up straight and kicks out the fire we were using to boil water. "Yeah. Well, it's been a while. I'm gonna go check the snares."

"Can I go with you?" Carl asks

"Well, how else are you gonna learn?" Rick says with a smile "Hey, both you too."

I stand and pick up my bag and we head further into the forest "We'll stay another day or two. Get some more rest."

"Finish healing up?" Michonne asks

"I'm almost there." Rick replies

"I'll be the judge of that" I tell him with a smirk

"We're close now, right? To Terminus?" Carl asks

"Yeah. We are." Rick replies

"When we get there, are we gonna tell them?" Carl asks

I look down at him confused and ask "Tell them what?"

He looks up at me "Everything that's happened to us. All the stuff we've done. Are we gonna tell them the truth?"

I look at Rick who says "We're gonna tell them who we are."

"But how do you say that? I mean... who are we?" Carl asks a very valid question.

I hear a walker approach. It comes out of the trees in front of us and I pull my gun out on instinct as does the boys and Michonne pulls out her sword and takes down the walker with one slice. That's who we are. We're not afraid any more. We just function and hope for the best.

"There you go. It's a small one. It'll do." Rick says and collects a rabbit from the snare "So, this is just a simple slipknot. Tie one on both ends, then you tighten one side to a branch. Now, you see how the ground here is sort of like a funnel shape?"

"It's a trail?" Carl asks

"That's right. That's where you want to set the noose. So you hide it with leaves. Then you put sticks all around it so any animals going by have to run this way right into the trap." Rick says but I'm paying no attention

"Gwen are you watching" Rick asks

I look down at him with a sad smile "Daryl already taught me how to set up snares, big and small"

Rick looks at me sadly and nods "Yeah, I suppose he would've"

The awkwardness is broken by a scream of help and Carl runs towards it. "Carl!" Rick shouts and follows him.

Michonne and I are right behind them. I see a guy surrounded by a circle of walkers screaming for help, his only weapon being a stick. Carl lifts his gun but Rick grabs him and pulls him away.

"We can't help him!" Rick snaps.

I peek behind the tree to see the guy getting his face munched off. He goes down, the walker go with him. A walker spots us.

"We gotta go!" Michonne says and grips my hand and pulls me back the way we came.

We run back to the tracks and run for it. We have walkers on our trail behind us and we are faced with a small blockade in front of us. Taking out the small number of walkers was easy. We follow the road instead of the tracks for a while.

"Thought maybe there'd be some houses down this way. Maybe even a store. There's got to be some food around here somewhere. Michonne says as we power on.

"Hey, look." Carl says

He has spotted a car. There is only one walker in the immediate vicinity and it can't even stand so Michonne deals with it while the rest of us check the car. It's empty of food but Carl can get some sleep in it. We still have the rabbit that Rick skins and cooks up on a tiny fire.

Carl gets some sleep while the three of us sit on a log with the tiny fire still going "That was one small rabbit." Rick says

"It was something." Michonne says "Got to hand it to the thing. It travelled well."

I let out a quiet giggle "One bite and I was full, seriously, I think that rabbit had a bigger stomach than me" I pull my hair out of its ponytail. The weight of my hair is pulling on my skull and making my head hurt.

Rick chuckles "Have you noticed that's all we talk about anymore? Food. I forgot what this feels like."

"Me, too. I hope we're able to forget again soon." Michonne says

"Well I don't know about you two but food is always on my mind, I try and forget about it out here. Mind over matter and all that" I tell them and lean into Rick.

"We're close. Just got to make it through another day." Rick stomps on the fire and puts it out "If folks there are taking people in, they have to be strong. They have to have a system."

"I wonder if the whole thing's legit." Michonne says

I lift my head and look at her then look at Carl before saying "It has to be."

Branches snap and I'm on my feet in seconds. I look into the dark forest, my heart pounding in my chest. After a few moments of staring, Rick and I sit back down.

"We let people in." Rick says

"We did. So did the Governor." Michonne points out

"Yeah, it's always the same, isn't it? Don't get to know until we know. Maybe this place isn't even there anymore" Rick says

I sigh and rub the back of my head "Man I could go a haircut. My head feels so heavy." I complain and run the back of my neck.

Michonne giggles "Ruining pretty hair like yours is a crime"

"We not past the whole beauty is pain milarky yet?" I ask

Michonne shakes her head "Never"

I hear a guns safety go off and I freeze. "Oh, dearie me. You screwed up, asshole" A familiar voice says

I gasp and reach for my gun just to have it kicked out of my hand. A gun in my face. I look up at the guy holding the gun to me and he's smirking. I swallow the lump in my throat. It's that guy from the house.

"You hear me? You screwed up." The older man continues "Today is a day of reckoning, sir. Restitution. A balancing of the whole damn universe."