Alex was shaking with fear and anger, but she let him pull her along with him. There was some idea that she should drop her pack but doing so would mean that she would be abandoning her recorder and that wasn’t something that she would ever do. The world could be ending and Alex would still be there with her recorder.

"I am never going into the woods again, I swear." The words are hissed through grit teeth, and offered almost a little bit like a prayer.