>>1838966Looking around, I find a tree of the right size to serve my purposes. Not too big, not to small. I hide behind it. Aria follows and tries to circle the tree; but I run in the complete opposite direction across the tree and stay out of her reach. We’re facing one another with this huge log between us. She turns right, I turn right. She turns left, I turn left. She stops, I stop. We’re on a deadlock.
“Melody, come out of there right now!”
“What are you going to do?”
“Just come out, it’ll only get worse!”
I weight my options, and take a decision.
“Okay, I’m coming out; don’t get mad.”
I come from behind the tree, hands in the air like if I had just been arrested.
“Melody, where are your…?”
