The island

The young girl walked on the warm beach, her feet making small prints in the sand. As she walked along, she scanned the sand for any sign of the small crabs. She saw the hint of red under the sand, shoving her hand quickly into the sand she grabbed the thing and pulled.

It seemed stuck so she pulled harder, it still didn't move so she pulled harder, then glanced in the direction it seemed to be coming from.

She made a little squeal as she noticed the person laying face down, half buried in the sand. Grabbing a stick she poked at it, nothing moved she poked again still nothing.

"Maybe this person needs help?" She thought. She moved closer, then slowly turned her over, the girl's eyes were closed, but she was still breathing with shallow breaths.

She had to get her off the beach before the dangers of the island got to her. She started pulling the girl to move her. She looked back, she hadn't moved her far. The poor girl was spiraled out, she almost laughed.

Grabbing her arm she pulled, but instantly dropping it and jumping back with a yelp, the dress glowed an even brighter red. She looked down at her hand it felt like a burn, she sighed it would be harder to get her off the beach, than she thought.

"Hey! I'm not going to hurt her!" She said, the dress still glowed. "I was just going to move her to a safer spot, it's not safe here!" She said the dress stopped glowing but stayed red, slowly putting out her hand and grabbing the girl's arms she pulled.

Pulling and pushing she finally got her into the trees. She leaned her up against one of them, the movement made the girl cough up water, she turned her on her side to better help the water out.

Her breathing became more stable as she lay there, the young girl started building a lean-too out of sticks and large leaves, around the girl to hide her from the dangers of the island, then disappeared into the trees.

Lacey shivered as the sun blinked in her eyes waking her, she coughed and groaned as she opened her eyes. "Where was she?" She blinked, and tried to swallow, her throat felt ruff and dry, and she needed water, slowly getting up to a sitting position as she looked around her.

She was in a makeshift shelter. She climbed out of the shelter and stood up on shaky legs and looked around.

The forest was thick, big trees were all around her, with big roots coming out of the ground. She needed to find water or something to drink.

She looked down at her soiled dress, she wasn't surprised to see it was yellow. "This place is not safe!" A flash of silver caught her eye, but when she looked around there was nothing.

She took a step and then another. Slowly moving and climbing over the bigger of the roots, she had not gone far before she felt utterly exhausted and turned back, returning to the makeshift lean-to she lay back down and was asleep in seconds.

Lacey groaned, her body not wanting to wake up as something cold was pressed to her lips, parting her lips the cold liquid felt good to her dry throat, but it was pulled away before she got enough.

Her eyes opened and she stared into a pare of big silver eyes. The eyes stared just as hard at her as she did to them. The eyes pulled away as she turned to look over her shoulder, her hair was silver except for the pink strip running through it.

Her hair swung with her movements. Lacey watched the young girl as she went still as if listening for something. When she turned back she sighed in relief and picked up a bundle and handed it to Lacey.

"Here eat." She said, Lacey slowly sat up opening the fabric. Inside was a small fried biscuit-looking thing. "Eat!" She said again, with worry. Lacey put it in her mouth, it was dry but tasted good. Eating it Lacey felt better, the girl handed her a bottle to drink, the water helped the dry biscuit go down.

She handed the bottle back to the girl who took it and placed it in a small bag at her waist. She took the piece of fabric and stuffed it in too.

"We can't stay here much longer." She said, getting up. "Can you walk?" She asked. Lacey slowly got up and winced. "I think so." She croaked out. "Ok come, I have a safe place." She said jumping up. They moved slowly through the trees going deeper into the forest.

The girl stopped a couple times to listen, then they continued. Lacey was about to drop when the girl jumped and grabbed a tree branch, swinging up. Lacey looked up only to see big leaves.

The girl leaned down grabbing Lacey's arms, "Jump!" She said, Lacey thought it was silly, but jumped as high as she could as the girl pulled. She scrambled up and got on the branch beside the young girl.

They jumped and climbed higher into the tree. Lacey saw what they were heading for. It was a small hut on a big branch that was the size of a room.

They climbed onto the porch, dry plants and flowers hang from the roof. The girl opened the door and then walked into the small room. There was a pile of leaves and grass for a bed and a flat stone.

Lacey was not going to wonder how she got that up here, she was exhausted. The girl pointed to the leaves and Lacey gratefully sank down on them. She looked around the hut, a ladder led to an opening, that led to who knows where.

Lacey's eyes drooped. "I'm Silvia." The girl said, as she sat down at the stone and placed the bottle and piece of fabric on it. "Lacey!" Lacey replied, Silvia looked at her. "Get some rest". Lacey laid down, the leaves were surprisingly soft.

To be continued-