Frostbound

It was difficult to weave my way through the camp without advertising the fact I had just come back from battle, but most people were more concerned with the fact breakfast was ready than they were with scrutinizing me and Austin.

We made it to Abigail's tent without notice and found that she wasn't there. I should have expected that given she would be coordinating the different tasks the family was going to be assigned today.

They usually took a break to eat breakfast so I didn't feel bad about interrupting her and gave Anna the task of going to get her. Anna jumped to the task and ran toward the middle of camp without hesitation.

It was a good thing that she was there because if we had to walk through the middle of camp to retrieve Abigail someone would have definitely noticed something.

It didn't take long for Anna to come back with Abigail in tow and she still had a few pieces of bacon from her unfinished breakfast. It didn't take her long to notice us and she immediately frowned when she saw us. She was always too observant. Any time when I was younger and tried to sneak out to a party it was like something whispered in her ear that I was hiding something and she would come to investigate.

It was unfair. It was like she had a sixth sense when I was about to go out. She never told on me though which was a good thing, she would just say to be careful and call her if I needed a ride. It was comforting to know and was also the reason I came to her now.

"What did you two do?" Was the first thing out of her mouth. Not 'good morning' or 'how are you doing' jumping straight to accusations.

I didn't hold back from telling her and as the story progressed her face became more and more angry and by the end of it she was almost vibrating from anger.

"You idiots! Do you know how dangerous that was? What if you got killed or seriously wounded? If an artery was hit you would bleed out by the time it would take to make it back to camp. Were you even using your head?" She very angrily made her points.

I wasn't going to back down though, "It was a calculated risk, Abigail. You know that if nothing changes more people will end up like Derek. I don't want to see that happen and I'm doing something to prevent it. We were careful and were quite successful I might add."

"It doesn't matter if you were successful, it was reckless!" Abigail was nearly yelling now.

"Abby, think this through. Use that giant brain of yours and think about the future. What do you think will happen for the rest of the tutorial? It's only been 11 days and already we lost someone, what do you think will happen in the 80 days to come? Do you think the waves will just stop?" I paused to give her time to think before continuing, "No. The waves will continue to get stronger and we need to get stronger to beat them."