I'm not quite sure how long I have spent on being unconscious, but I'm sure it wasn't less than a day. A whole twenty-four hours.

I finally woke with a terrible pain in the back of my head, which I think was bleeding, not long ago. I could hardly sit up and recall the last events before the incident happened. I ran my hand over my head and saw the blood on it. I was still bleeding, but very slightly.

I think it was a whole hour before I could plainly see under my nose, and walk without much trouble. I remembered the voice I heard before I lost conscience. Was it only one voice? That, I cannot tell.

I could only walk few steps before I was exhausted again, but I could plainly see that I was somewhere higher than before. Actually higher and further from the town. I looked around, wishing to find help of some kind, and by sudden, my eyes came across few people going to the direction opposite to me. I think they were four. That reminded me of...no, not that again. Not now. We'll check on them when I get done with this. Sooner or later they will reappear. That game of theirs won't last forever.

I waved my hands and shouted as loud as I was able to. But my voice calling them seemed to have had such a bad influence on the situation,  which turned rather worse than better. The tallest of the men (who appeared to be all men) took a huge pistol and pointed it to my direction. For once I felt it was really the end. I could feel the bullet passing by my ear, causing such a terrifying slight wind that I would not forget in my whole life. It broke the woods behind me, but didn't, very fortunately, touch me. I let out a deep sigh of relief.

-"He's not dead!"

Then I saw them coming up. To me.

    
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I have mentioned before, that I was in such a terrible situation, that I could barely walk more than few steps. Therefore, you can imagine what this new trouble had added to it.

I still can't remember the way I got into the other side of the forest, and safely out of it. I was unconscious. Again. I woke up few days later in the hospital. As for my "friends", I have not seen them since then. I don't think I will. Go see them....

In the jail.....