UNSETTLING

"Your leg… what happened to it?" The Sheriff asked Claire after the trio broke the group embrace with her. All eyes turned to Claire's leg on hearing the question. Her mother gasped as she bent down slightly to check out the wound.

"I umm, found her caught by some trap in the woods. It is my fault. I… I… set the traps to hunt some bush meat for consumption." It was the man who had came in with Claire and had been quiet all along that spoke.

Mrs Finn rose, stretching fully, and then glared at the man on hearing his words but then she paused as she turned to her daughter with a raised eyebrow.

"What were you doing in the woods anyway?" she asked and everyone waited to hear Claire's answer.