After consuming the fruit, Victor coughed.
The girl stood up and handed him the water.
"I simply collected some water from the river.Filtration has been done with small stones.It’s clean.Drink it."
Victor stopped momentarily as he inspected the water as if suspecting it was poisoned.
The girl didn’t seem to grasp Victor’s thinking.She persuaded Victor to drink the water.
"Quick.There is no need to be worried.For the past few days, I’ve been drinking the water.My bowel movements are normal."
"Thanks,"
Victor mumbled as he took the water.
"We’re in the same boat.We both got lost in the forest.Humans have a built-in tendency to give a hand to each other."
She nonchalantly waved her hand.
The sun was blazing.
"Then again, we can’t stay here for long.There has to be a way out."
Rather than drinking it, Victor quietly set the water down.
He was extremely thirsty, and he had been injured.
However, he was skeptical of the person in front of him despite the fact that his body needed water very badly at that moment.
"Hey! What’s your name?"
The girl shifted her attention to Victor.
For a fleeting moment, she caught a glimpse of the water jug.She could tell he hadn’t drunk the water.
Pretending not to see it, she shifted her attention elsewhere.
"Vic."
"Van?" she asked since she didn’t heart it clearly"
Observing her, Victor paused before nodding in agreement.
"What about you, then? What is your name?"
"My name? Shelia Davis."
Shelia’s two deep dimples were clearly visible as she smiled.
can call
"Shelia.."
Victor whispered
"That’s a pretty name."
mean? I chose the name
Shelia leaned against Victor, she
you say the name you
I like the way it sounds and because it’s unique as
a branch that she found on the ground
out how to spell Shelia’s name until that
Shelia… Nothing about it sounded
that set Shelia apart from other girls
word "Van"
your
Victor was his name.
reason, he didn’t correct
each other’s names,
a gesture of friendship,
once again! Hi, my name is
"Pleasure. I’m Van."
to Shelia and
up and patted the soil on her body after she had
you to stand? To avoid being stalked again by wolves at night, we must find
also aware that they wouldn’t
slowly with his hand on
"Let’s get going!"
the darts in a cloth bag,
of water that he hadn’t consumed, surveyed the area, and indicated
"Let’s take this route."
gaze remained fixed on
watched Shelia deftly stow the
have lost her
she was able to save him from
it was apparent that she wasn’t lost or in need of help
on guard against
Shelia led the way.
injured, she didn’t move as quickly as she perhaps could if he was in perfect
strolled the forest for about forty minutes, and they still
was surging upwards into
to block out the sun as she wiped away the sweat from
like we’ve
too, came to
the third time we’ve come across this tree," he said, looking at the trunk
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