The Trouble in The Wood.

Awakening

   Salem woke  up with ringing in her ears and a migraine.  She rubbed her eyes,  feeling water on them.  She sat up slowly and looked around, it was just turning sunset and it was raining.  Fear and panic threatened to set in, but she suppressed it.'Where am I...??' she thought,having a sense of dread. Once her vision cleared she noticed she was in forest,a large one at that.

   Groaning caught her attention. She squinted and looked around once more.  She saw teenagers, like her all unconscious.  When she went to move, to get up, searing pain appeared on her arm.  She looked at her arm and stifled a gasp.   Six markings were etched into her skin.  All the same.  The marking were all in a line,  from her inner wrist to her inner elbow.  "The hell..... " she muttered with a hoarse voice.

      She looked at her arm one last time, before she got up and went to find a creek. once she found one,  she cupped her hands skimming the top of the water.  She took a sip from her cupped hands and sighed.  Satisfied,  Salem went back to the others.  Only the girls were up.  Murmurs of confusion interrupted the soft pattering of the rain on the leaves overhead. 

   Salem cleared her throat.  "Calm down.  We all are confused, but let's not lose our heads. " She said sharply.  She must've startled them because they all gasped and jumped.  "Who are you?" One girl asked.  Salem glanced at the girls arm and said,  "five ranks higher then you. " When even more confused murmurs surfaced,  she showed them her arm with the six marking. 

   "Woah. " The girl from before muttered,  then apologized.  "There's a  creek little ways that way.  Once the boys wake up we'll talk about what's happening" salem said, pointing to where the creek was. 

    Moments passed and now everyone was awake and paired up,  surprisingly everyone had a partner with the same marking on their arm. 

     Salem and a guy named Max had six markings.  A girl named Claire and a guy named Harry  had five.  Another girl, Allie,  and a guy named Dakota had four. Then,  a girl named Jane and a guy named Alex had three.  One other girl named, Mya and a guy named Justin had two.  Then last of all a girl named Hannah and a guy named Lucas had one. 

Too tired to really speak they all agreed to talk in the morning and went to sleep on the surprisingly soft ground.