Alexandria pushed the door to the cabin open and grabbed the baseball bat with both hands as she glanced inside.  The only sounds she could hear came from the blazing fire in the front room. There were two chairs facing the fireplace off to the left and she could see a kitchen towards the back of the cabin.  There was a hallway to the right that appeared to lead to a bedroom and bathroom.

As she stepped over the threshold she called out, “Hello? Is there anybody here?”  There was no answer from inside the cabin, yet she still refused to put down the bat until she checked all the rooms in the cabin.

She searched through the kitchen, the bedroom and the bathroom and found no one else in the cabin.  Next she checked the windows and doors to be sure they were secured, once done, she allowed herself to set the bat down, but still kept it within reaching distance.

If someone had told Alexandria two days ago where she would be now and what she would be doing, she would have laughed at them and told them they were crazy.  Now she wondered if she weren’t the one going crazy.  Waking up in a strange place, being chased by the unknown, then chasing after a wolf through the woods and finally ending up in a secluded cabin in Lord only knows where.

As she wandered back through the kitchen she glanced inside the fridge to see what supplies she would have in case she ended up stranded in the cabin for a few days.  There seemed to be two shelves full of bottled water and everything from steak to hamburger filling up the other shelves.  A quick glance in the freezer showed more packaged meat. 

This might have caused Alexandria to take pause and wonder why there was so much protein in the fridge and nothing else, but as she finished the last bit of water in her bottle she was overwhelmed with exhaustion. As if she had been running on adrenaline and it suddenly vanished and left her body tired and aching.

She wanted desperately to just lay down at that moment, but knew that showering and washing away the dirt and grime would help to disinfect any of the scratches that covered her legs and feet.  Not to mention, she just wanted to feel some semblance of clean again, she thought. 

After showering she refused to put the dress she had been wearing back on until it was clean so she rummaged around the bedroom until she found a deep blue flannel shirt that she buttoned partially up the front.

Once clean and dressed, she grabbed the baseball bat she had been carrying around and walked back into the front room.  She laid the bat down in front of the stone hearth and added a few more logs to the fire so that it would continue to burn while she slept.

There was a fleece blanket draped over one of the chairs that would keep her quite warm, she thought to herself.  As she laid out on the plush rug in front of the fire, she pulled the blanket up over her body and gazed into the crackling fire. 

Alexandria replayed the night’s events in her mind and tried to make sense of it all, but as the time before, her head began to ache when she tried to remember more than what had happened prior to waking up in the clearing.

She thought back to her protector, the beautiful silver haired wolf and wondered where he had run off to.  If it weren’t for him, she didn’t know what would have happened to her.  And now in the privacy of this place, with no one here to answer to but herself, she let herself think about what she felt when the wolf had licked her palm.