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embarrassing
fact that he could probably still see me from the Jeep. I finished
up and headed back to the car.
    “Where to now? Or do you want to go ahead
and suffocate me with your magic towel there again?" I snapped as I
buckled myself back in.
    “We will be where we are going to leave the
Jeep in about an hour. You should eat something. You have been out
for two days. I promise when we get where we are going I will
explain everything." Yup, man of mystery over here. I was starting
to think I did not like this new Kennan at all. While I was overly
curious as to what in the world was happening to my seemingly
normal life, I was also too stubborn to give him the satisfaction
of asking.
    I occupied my time looking out the window. I
noticed that everything was really green here, and I did mean
everything. It was as if any surface that stood still long enough
was covered in moss. I was pretty sure if I went out there and
stood still for an hour, I would turn green as well. Then there was
the sky. It was an endless blanket of grey that leaked a fine spray
of constant moisture. It was not enough to call rain, but it
certainly was not dry. Then I noticed the ferns. Good God! I did
not know that ferns could even get that big. By the time we finally
came to a stop at the end of the gravel road, I was totally
entranced by the beauty of the place.
    “Alright, time to get out Izzy. You need to
put on those hiking boots in the backseat. We will be walking from
here," he said tiredly, as if he just knew I was going to give him
problems.
    I bit my tongue and put on the shoes in
silence. They fit perfectly. Then I threw on the raincoat that was
lying next to them. I didn’t need him to dress me as well. I got
out and stood staring blankly at my former best friend. I felt as
though I was looking at a complete stranger. I guess I could try
and run, but first I needed to know where the hell I was. I could
be patient. I would just go along with whatever Crazy Pants here
had planned for me until I knew more about what special kind of
hell I was in.
    As I was getting ready in the car, Kennan
was unloading supplies and filling up a giant hiking backpack. He
had a second backpack that was loaded with barely anything. I knew
which one I wanted to carry. He then proceeded to cover the vehicle
so that no one would ever notice it was even there. He turned and
grabbed the giant backpack as if it weighed nothing then handed me
the lighter one.
    “We will be walking for about four hours. We
can stop and rest as much as you need to, but we need to try and
make it where we are going by nightfall," he said to me before
turning and disappearing into the tree line.
    I stepped in after him noticing that there
was no discernible trail. The trees were the biggest trees I had
ever seen in my life. I could not even wrap my arms a quarter of
the way around some of them. I was lost in a dreamland while
blindly following him. As my mind wandered, I remembered the dream
I had had of my mother warning me to hide. Could she have been
warning me about him all along? Or was it just a coincidence? I
stumbled on a root and a hand reached out to steady me lightning
fast. Inhumanly fast. Without any explanation Kennan turned and
kept walking.
    I refused to ask for a break and after three
hours of walking up what felt like a mountainside I was exhausted.
Kennan did not look back at me but any time my steps faltered, he
was there to steady me. By the time the fourth hour had passed I
was about dead on my feet. We were steadily climbing when there was
a sudden break in the endless trees and man-eating ferns.
    There, standing in the small clearing with a
rock face at its back, was a cabin. It was not a meager one room
shack type cabin either. This was a huge, well-built structure. I
marveled at how something like this could be built up here. There
were no roads to bring supplies, so I had no clue how it would have
been done. Just to clear a patch of forest to build it would