Drops of water began to fall on his face. They began in a slow, rhythmic motion until suddenly, a wave of ice cold water washed over his head and he nearly jumped out his skin, finally awoken to a sarcastic giggle and the sound of a bucket being dropped innocently onto the ground. **"Good morning, Sleeping Beauty,"** Taylor's voice was recognizable enough since it had the highest pitch out of everyone in the group.
Jude's mind was fuzzy and it was dark in the woods. When had it gotten dark? **"What happened?"** He mumbled, trying to wring some of the water off of his hoodie. Great, his hoodie was absolutely drenched. It had become ragged and torn due to day after day of constant abuse on the material.
**"Well,"** he imagined her fixing her glasses right now, though it was a bit too dark to see, **"You were training with Milla and your power overloaded. After that, you passed out cold and I had to save a giant rock from crushing your sorry ass,"** she paused momentarily, **"You're welcome."**
**"Yeah, thanks,"** there was slight irritation towards Milla and especially towards Rusty for leaving him with Taylor. Speaking of which, his mind was still unable process properly from the apparent overload, **"Where are the others?"**
**"Well, Milla decided to take Adam out for training,"** Owch, the poor guy, **"And Rusty said something about having to run errands and just disappeared. I'm hoping he went off the island again so he can bring us something good."** Jude stood up and dusted himself off as she spoke.
Though his mind was freaking out, it didn't imagine the sound of the gunshot not too far off. Now much more alert, he searched the dense woods, **"Taylor,"** he waved for her to follow. She didn't even need to hear, she was already behind him. Knowing Milla, she'd already be there.
- - -
And of course, she was.
Apparently, by the time that Jude and Taylor had arrived, the entire scene was already over. Adam and Milla were perched up against a fallen log a few yards away and told the story of how "two unseen and brave Outcasts burned the despicable Blades to death" and then Milla laughed, while Adam remained silent.
**"Aww, I wanted to kill some Blades,"** Taylor spoke with a partial pout and Milla looked over the log into the woods, **"Not to easily to see at this time of night in a forest this dense. There may be more."**
She looked back at the other three, "**Adam, go back to camp and wait for Rusty to return. Tell him what's going on as soon as he arrives. Jude, you're backup. Taylor, you're with me,"** and with that, she hopped over the fallen log with Taylor and Jude in tow.