I don't know why I would say to stranger that I trusted him but there was something about this man. His eyes everything, his musky scent, it was warm as if I was home even though I didn't know where home was.
- "We have to light fire, but we can't do that here it's not safe"
I knew that when Xander said it wasn't safe that he wasn't talking about the people that we had run away from, there was something else someone else in this forest and Xander would do everything in order to keep us hidden from them.
The burning feeling became more and more prominent as if the poison was eating the meat on my cheeks. And as if that wasn't bad enough a mild fever could also be felt. We must have walked 20minutes further into the forest, when Xander stopped at a place where trees had created a dense cirkel and in the middle of that cirkel there was nothing, but it did look like a place someone would stop at to sleep. The ground wasn't soggy this meant that you could lay in your sleeping bag without having mud all over you when you woke up. At this point the sun was setting and the daylight and the warmth that it brought was no longer there.
It only took at couple of minutes for Xander to light a fire, a fire that would be used to burn my cheek.