Farrah Benz , NOTES

Sure it was a good idea? Col, sometimes you're the most reckless, most idiotic person on Earth. Or, well... on this colony, I mean. Okay, you're a medic, sure, you dedicated your life to helping others, to care for the well-being of your fellow humans, blablablahhh. I know. So, someone tells you there's a child in need of medical care somewhere in the wilderness, and without much hesitation, you simply venture out to find him. Without any escort. On your own, your 5'4" little blonde own, waiting for trouble to happen. And then, of course, you get lost. After crossing miles and miles of woods and swamps, your shirt melting over your body from the heat, instead of finding the nomadic settlement to which they drew the direction to your little tablet device, you end up literally in the middle of nowhere.

Colette rarely ventured out to the wilderness region known as Nemus, she mostly tended to stay in the comfy zone of Exurbia, where at least she could interact with normal people and stay within the boundaries of the so-called human civilization. Nemus was something entirely different. It was the wilderness, the area from where normal people mostly stayed away. It was the final frontier of the final frontier. She knew the area was mostly inhabited by people who watched too much 'Survivor' back home, and was now trying to play Robinson Crusoe. Nomads, as they called themselves, they were keen on getting along on their own, and obviously had better jungle survival skills than the little Canadian did. She now felt a bit of envy towards these people, while searching for their settlement like one searches for the lost city of gold. At least, she borrowed a large army knife from one of the farmers, which was now her only chance of survival in case a four-eyed alien spider-wolf might crawl out from behind the bushes.

After hours of wandering around, Col felt completely lost and without hope of finding the way either to the injured boy or back to the colony. She realized the best she could do would be trying to find some connection on her device which might allow her to ask for help, hoping the four-eyed alien spider-wolves leave her alone until someone could come to find her. But then, she heard the quiet sound of distant movement, and smelled the scent of food being prepared under fire somewhere nearby. There was someone else here! Finally! Colette walked towards the presumed location of the other human (or at least, she was hoping it was a human), with the knife in her left hand for security purposes, but signaling peaceful intentions with a smile and an open right hand. However, the mysterious jungle creature turned out not to be so friendly afterall.

Colette faced the aggressive-looking woman slowly moving towards her with a knife, telling her to piss off. I do not belong here? Whaaaat? Acute case of jungle fever, she thought, gazing at the brunette, who obviously belonged to the above-described group of stray wanna-be nomads. They think of themselves as being so tough, they want to scare away people so they won't bother their little playgrounds. Acute case of anti-social behavior, the blonde thought, these people were actually looking for a chance to get away from everything and everyone, and when the disaster happened and they were dumped... err... deployed here, it was their big big wish come true, courtesy of the Blue Fairy. But neverthless, she had to negiotiate with the knife-wielding lady now, as she wanted to either find the way to help the kid or the way back home.

"Calm down, Jane Rambo.", she replied to the woman with a quirky smile, "I mean no harm. I came out here to help an injured child.", she then explained.