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not kidding, let’s go, NOW!”
    She didn’t need to think about that.  She was ahead of him now.  Her fear turned back to the terms under which she would live if they did catch up to them.  He smiled at her while watching her buttocks power into the run.  Then he caught up to her, grabbed her by the arm, grinned down at her and clicked.
    Her pupils shrunk so small it was hard to tell she even had pupils.  He looked at her and put his hands over her brows.  “I know you’re not used to the sun.  However, thank it for existing.  Even down there, we couldn’t exist without it.”
    “How?”  She looked around but not too hurriedly as she noted that he was shading her eyes and that it made it possible for her to see, but what she saw made no sense.  Instead of trying to take it all in she looked at him, “I was running, that was an instant ago, now I’m here.  What happened?  Did I fall?”  She played the last few moments back in her head and her last memory was of him grabbing her by the arm.
    “It’s a lot to explain, but they’re probably wondering where we went.”  He laughed at himself.  “Okay look, out there.  Do you see those two on that ridge?”
    Her eyes still hadn’t adjusted but she could see the two figures he was point at.  Then she watched as his finger moved and pointed to a small dot.  She focused on it and realized that was what the people before her mother’s time ate.  But it was alive and it was moving.  Then he tapped her shoulder and pointed up in the sky and her eyes were pierced by the sun.  He tapped her shoulder again, with impatience so she tried to focus.  Then she saw a small dot moving slowly through the sky.  She turned to him and asked, “Is that a bird?”
    He laughed.  “Yes, they’re real.  Things in the universe tend to find way to use advantages other things haven’t.  Birds are real.  That bird is a hunter type.  Its advantage is seeing really well from up there and having wings strong enough to pull it out of a dive.”
    “And the other thing?”  She asked.
    “Hmm, well it’s called a rabbit.  That doesn’t well explain what you are watching.”  He pointed back to the two figures looking down at the rabbit.  “Consider those two.  They just met, but they have the same focuses.  Right now they are distracting each other by discussing the rabbit.”
    “Why?”  She asked.
    “Wasn’t it you who just realized that in the old days that was food?”  He inquired.
    “Yeah, I…wait, how did you know that?  I didn’t say that out loud!”  She began to feel like she wanted to pull away from this man, but then she realized she didn’t even know where she was and all of her experience was useless up here.  In the city, she would have had him dealt with, but here, she knew nothing.  Then she recanted that thought, looking down at the rabbit.  She wondered how people ate it, then she wondered how it would taste.
    “See, now you’re distracted by the rabbit too.”  He grinned, then he said, “I can take us back if you want.  Or we can sit here and watch how this plays out.  If we do that, don’t interfere, please.”
    She again found herself more interested in the mystery than the awkwardness of her situation and she watched with him.  Then she saw one of the men move in an odd way.  She looked up and saw the bird change direction.  She noted the rabbit froze in position while so much began to happen quickly.
    He reached over and touched her arm and they were on the edge of a cliff.  He looked at her, “We’re back to now.  I suppose that’s one way to explain it.  So what did you see?”
    She looked at him dumfounded.  “I don’t know.  How are we here?  Did I fall asleep with all of that going on?”  She looked up as a butterfly passed by her head.  She wonders at it and holds out a finger.  It lands on her finger for rest and to feel her moisture.
    He noted it and thought it was odd that it was in