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men as their comrades passed them and pulled his sword in battle readiness.  He knew the signs of an upcoming fight.  He just hoped that he was not about to face the four of them together.  There was only so much he could do on his own, despite his reputation.  He hadn’t expected this.

As luck would have it, the two that he had been chasing kept riding as he clashed with their comrades.  It didn’t take him long to dispatch them, for they were every bit as tired and winded as their friends had seemed to be.  He thanked God for the soundness of his mount, and spurred back after the two that he had been following earlier.  It was time to finish tying up all the loose ends.

He found the men three miles further into the forest, near a clearing.  They were waiting for him, and they were ready. 

CHAPTER VII
    It had taken Aura almost a week to figure out her approximate location, but how she had gotten there remained a mystery.  From what she could see of the layout of the land she had decided she had to be in the South East end of England, not too far from where she had lived.  The lack of anything familiar told her that she was no longer living in the time period she had grown up in.  She had no idea what year it was, just that there was nothing here that she could relate to.  She was lost in a maze of time and space and all she could do was to try and survive.

The time passed quickly for Aura.  Week after week went by and she managed to avoid discovery.  She was afraid of being found.  She was scared of what they might do to her.  It was obvious to her that she didn’t belong in this time and place.  She considered herself lucky, for although she had witnessed what she considered several embarrassing meeting, her own presence went unnoticed.  She went about her solitary way learning what she thought she needed to know to survive in her alien surroundings.  It seemed as if there were never enough hours in a day to pack all she felt she needed to accomplish, and she established a pattern to try to make it easier.

The pond below the falls had become a bathing spot for her, one she used with caution and discretion.  She had always preferred morning showers, now she bathed after dark or very early in the day.  The first order of business for Aura continued to be food, and the ways of procuring it.  Her first kill; however necessary, had been followed by tears of guilt, though her wolf had seemed pleased enough about it.  She had never killed anything before, and to see the poor creature in its death throws had been more than she could handle.  It was something she had learned to overcome with the passing of time.  She understood that her existence depended on gathering what she could from the land.

Both the wolf and Roger were growing, and while Roger seemed to do well on his own, it seemed as if Wolf was almost totally dependent on her.  He ate as if he was starved.  Aura could not hold it against him.  He was such a lovable, cuddly puppy, and he was so much fun.

In the learning process she found that she had to implement many of the lessons she had been taught in her science courses, and she often wished that she had a few of her text books with her.  She, however, had to be happy that she could remember as much as she could.  Even then she found survival hard, and often feared she might starve to death.  It took almost all of her efforts just to survive.

In the beginning she had spent a lot of time deciding how she was going to manage to make ends meet.  She had made a mental list of things she was going to have to do before the winter weather set in.  Though it had been months away at the time, she decided she had to begin as soon as possible for her efforts to be effective.  She laid in a supply of wood, grasses, herbs, grains, and other such dry items, so she would not either freeze or starve, and although she had been unsure how she would manage to hide the continuous