17. Desire

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A long moment passes and the voices start fading. Leighton opens his eyes and realises he's still alone and safe. He takes a look and sees the natives around the fire. They took a few arrows, but thankfully, there are still some left.  He tries to forget his fear and take advantage of their absence to crawl towards the tent and take one of the weapons spread on the ground. As soon as he succeeds his mission, he runs back to Julian and hurries to cut the rope. He looks around, worried that they'll see him, and at the same time, he carefully cuts the strand in order not to hurt Julian.  At the exact moment he succeeds to free him, they hear a loud shout. They gasp when they realise they've been caught. Julian hurries to free himself from the rope and takes Leighton's hand. "Run!" he scream

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