His arms

Finally Lany looked in the direction of the door and saw that Rosa had just entered the hallway and bolted the door. She came up to them both and looked worriedly at Lany. Then Rosa turned her gaze to Warren alone for a moment and then, without saying a word, moved to the other, locked door to open it. After entering the small room herself, she waved to Warren and Lany and pointed to another door in that room. Warren gave her a briefly startled expression, but it vanished as quickly as it had appeared. Maybe Lany was just wrong about that. Rosa whispered something to Warren before letting them both outside through the door just shown.

They seemed to be at the back of the building now and it seemed that Warren knew exactly what to do. Lany followed without resisting. They were moving fast so Lany could barely keep up with him. And since it was already dark, Warren was careful to keep them in the shadows. Nobody should discover them, nobody should even suspect that they had just been to the bar.

There wasn't much going on on the only street in town. The laughter and sometimes the bickering of the bar visitors came from the bar. But otherwise nobody could be heard or seen. Lany thought Warren was going to take her to a car and then take her off. She didn't know why he was helping her - maybe she was just misinterpreting it again - but right now she preferred anything than to be in this bar and wait for this madman to discover her.

She still wondered how he could have found her here. Lany had judged the situation not completely wrong, but still apparently too harmless. She just wanted to go on vacation and maybe experience one or the other adventure.

Still lost in her thoughts, she didn't notice that she and Warren weren't on the way to a car, but were headed straight for the thick forest. Only when the light that was radiating from the place and its buildings could hardly be seen, since they had already worked their way far enough into the forest, did Lany see where they were now. Since she could almost no longer see the hand in front of her eyes, it was absolutely a mystery to her how Warren found his way so safely through the thicket. Thank God Warren had been holding her arm the whole time, otherwise she would have been lost.

Finally he stopped. In the meantime they had penetrated further into the forest. All around them there was only darkness and absolute silence. The latter seemed strange to Lany, but she would have to deal with that too later. For now, the first thing to do was to find out why Warren had led her into this forest and why in the Lord's name Lany had followed him without resistance. How could she bring so much trust in him - a man she had only known for a few hours and who still seemed a bit weird, if not quite creepy?

"Why did you bring me here?" Lany asked a little suspiciously.

“You had to get out of there. That guy in the bar was looking for you. And now don't tell me that he's actually her fiancé because I wouldn't believe you. "

"No he is not. I'm neither engaged nor in any committed relationship! ”Lany couldn't explain why it was suddenly so important to her that Warren knew this one thing about her, but it was so and now it was out anyway.

There was a silence that seemed to last unbearably long. And it was not particularly helpful, but rather disturbing in a special way, to talk to someone who you couldn't even see - but whose presence kept giving her goose bumps.

Finally Warren broke the silence. "I thought so. He was too anxious to have his story taken from him. But you must at least know him. Who is he? What does he want from you? And more importantly - why are you so afraid of him that you can smell it for a hundred miles against the wind? "

"Wait a minute - smell my fear? How was that meant by him again? This guy is slowly becoming more and more creepy to me… ”Lany once again led one of her inner monologues, as has so often been lately. Nevertheless, she was surprised at the very edge of her consciousness, because apparently he really only wanted to help her. He'd already proven it once by taking her out of the bar.

"Yes, I know him. However, I would never have thought that he would make it come true and follow me on my vacation and thus to the other end of the world, so to speak. "Lany hesitated a little, and shortly before this uncomfortable silence could spread between them again, she continued without further ado" You're welcome! I'll tell you everything I know about him, but can't we go somewhere else where it's not so dark and terribly scary? Aren't there any predators here that could ambush us, perhaps to have a nightly snack? "

“Em… yes, of course! But don't worry about the predators, just stay near me, then nothing can happen to you here. "

Strangely enough, Warren seemed to really believe what he was saying. Still, Lany found it quite absurd that just because Warren Lang was with her, she would be avoided by any predator in her immediate vicinity. But what the heck, for the time being she had no choice but to follow him on. Because she would never find her way out of this forest on her own. Therefore Lany tried to see it as her very first adventure on her vacation and made a good face for the so-called bad game. Oh, how she hated proverbs, but this one fit - like a fist on the eye. Damn! She had to stop with these proverbs.

When they finally came to a small clearing, Lany discovered a car after all. It seemed it was a jeep. They could probably use that here too. After they got in and drove across the woods for a while - Lany didn't even try to orientate herself, that would have been pointless - Warren finally stopped the car.

“From here we have to continue on foot. The path is impassable for any vehicle. "

“Can't you just take me to the next town. From there I could try to get my things and at the same time avoid this guy. “Lany was getting more and more strange and she wondered again what she was doing here and where her trust in Warren came from.

“The next place is several thousand miles away from here. You have really chosen the loneliest spot on earth for your vacation that could be found. Is not it? I'll take you to my camp first. There we can think about how to proceed. ”Warren took Lany by the arm again and pulled her gently but firmly with him.

And again Lany followed him without resistance. What else could she have done out here? There would be no one here anyway who could have helped her, and otherwise she would have run into HIM's arms and thus probably into her doom - here at the end of the world, in this lonely place. "Damn! Damn! Damn!"