By the creek

When the man reached to the creek he set the girl down. He listened a short moment and then he bended down beside the girl. "What should I do with you?" he murmed and touched her forehead. "No fever, but still unconscious. How long have you been unconscious? What causes it?" The man raised and moistened his hand in the creek and applied her face with cold water. She sight but did not wake up.

The man rised up and listened carefully. "I do not like this!" he said and looked around. The mist looked like it has been tightened. "Fog althougt the sun has been up hours! We cannot stay here!" He rised the girl up and started to walk on carefully. After a few steps he stopped and listened again. He could hear nothing. Carefully he walked on step by step across the creek. And then he stopped again, put the girl down, and listened carefully.

The cat and the raven has been following the man. The were clearly alert. The man waved his hand to the raven and it looked like it understood. It raised up to its wings and flew away. The cat started to tiptoe under the bushes. The man waited paitiently. He know that soon he will know. When waiting he bended down and touched the girls face. She was still unconscious and her breathing was light, maybe too light. The man wrinkled his brows anxiously.

At the very moment the raven flew back and shrieked shortly. And the cat came forth from the bushes. "So did you see anything?" asked the man silently. The raven shrieked again, rised to its wings and flew towards west. The cat sneaked towards west too. "OK, you think we must go to west although the city of Citadel is north." muttered the man. He lifted the girl and started to walk. He trusted hes companions instincts and followed them towards west.

"City of Citadel has to wait for me for a while." he thought. Soon he realised that the mist was not so thick anymore. And when he reached the end of the forest the air was clear.

The discovery

There was a raven sitting on the branch of the bush. "Hey, was it you who mouned here?" said the man and turned around. The raven shrieked and the man turned to it "I don't bother you if you have your nest there in the bush." said the man to the raven and started to walk. The raven rised to its wings and flew towards the man. The man swerwe the bird and tried to go on. The raven shrieked again and flew towards the man.

"Hey, are you trying to say something to me?" asked the man and stopped again. He realised that the cat has been standing in front of the bush for a while. "Is there something in the bushes?" wondered the man. He bent down to hes knees and tryed to see in the bush. He could see nothing so he pushed hes hand in the bush and get grip something soft. He tryed to pull it on sight bud could not.

"What do we have here?" he mumbled and bent down on the ground. He saw yellow fabric sleeve in the midle of the bush and in the sleeve there was a hand. "What a hec!" The man took a good grab and pull. Slowly he got a body out of the bush. It was a woman, actually a young girl. "Is she dead? No she breathing. Thank God!"

He lifted the girl up and starts to walk on. Soon he could hear water rippling and there was a little creek in front of him. He layed the girl down. The raven and the cat turned to watch him. "Hey, she is not made of air." he said to his companions.