I followed them, jumping down the small drop. I landed on the ground, and heard a sharp crack.

Realization came back to me, and I screamed out in pain. This wasn’t a movie anymore; this was real life. I could control it!

Part of me was happy, but the rest of me was in pain.

I limped over to a tree and rolled my jeans up as far as they could. My knee had… popped… I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know about anything medical, and there was nothing for me to do except follow my instinct.

My knee looked.. bigger, deformed.

Dislocated.

“Shit!” I said, knowing that I wouldn’t be able to run, or even stand up, with this done to me.

Helicopters in the distance. Dogs coming closer, more sirens joining the buzz of ones from earlier… getting near…

I heard water in the distance, probably where Grant and the woman had been going to. I could try to get there… it would take at least ten minutes.

Maybe if I took a different route, a different way…

Confusing them would be my only chance.