2021-11-27 - Excuse me?

Know the BEST part of the people trying to murder you being in jail is? No more hiding. Isi celebrates with a run. Not too far from town, but away from Elm and as deep into the trees as twenty-five minutes will get her. Usually her endurance is longer, but her arm is still Hella broken.

It's chilly and just wet enough to stick the shirt of anyone out in it to their body like a second skin. On a little trail deep in the woods, there sits a rather wet young man. Tyler is on a log at the side of the trail, his hands on his knees, bent over just a bit as he catches his breath. His hair drips water and he seems completely oblivious to the world around him.

Isi is no far away from being the recipient of attempted murder that she can take breathing where there SHOULD NOT BE BREATHING in stride. She can't see Tyler though the trees but she can hear him. She COULD not jump to conclusions but... yeah,

"STAY THE FUCK AWAY OR I WILL BRAIN YOU WITH THIS BRANCH."

Oh. She should get a branch. Threats are better when you can follow though. One moment please.

Tyler is startled, and he hops to his feet, "What? huh!?" Once standing, he slowly holds his hands a bit in the air, "Whoah, hey, easy. I um... I'm not uh... I'm not here for trouble!" He takes a single step closer to the trail so she can perhaps see him a bit better. He's not tall, but his muscular build could certainly be imposing. The dark Tshirt he's wearing, however, has a Gray Harbor Fire Department emblem over his heart.

Isi finds a branch and holds it up in her good hand, swishing it like a cub. His forward step is her back a step. "If you try to kill me I swear to god- once a week is fucking enough."

Poor Tyler, his shirt does not save him.

Tyler tilts his head a bit, still keeping his hands up. "I um... I didn't mean to startle you. I was just... I was..." He sighs, "My name is Tyler. I'm not out here to try to kill you. I just come out here to think sometimes after a hard day." He shrugs, "And when it rains."

Isi narrows her eyes and considers Tyler, she tries to do the thing... and fails. Hard core. So, does she trust? No? Yes?

"Fine." She lets the branch down, but doesn't drop it. "Sorry. Been jumpy since my car accident." A nod to her cast that covers her right arm from just below her shoulder to her wrist.

Tyler studies her a moment when she mentions the car accident. He nods, lowering his hands and folding them over his chest. Furrowing his brow a little, he offers, "Jumpy is wise. You prolly shouldn't be out here by yourself. I don't know how safe it is. You know... for a... um..." He furrows his brow a little more, and then looks away a moment, perhaps recognizing how sexist he just sounded.

"Oh, you mean... what? A person? A human? A fucking woman?" Why yes, that branch comes back up, but Isi isn't fully aware of it.

"Did I get it right?"

Tyler nods, rolling his eyes, and looking away again. "Yeah." He sighs, and then looks back at her. "Nevermind." He shrugs, but keeps his eyes on her and that stick.

"Never mind is right you arrogant sommn of a bitch." Isi is not nice and says the quiet things aloud.

"I know what kind of fuckery goes down here, I got it, veil, oga Boo-ga. Whatever." Isi glares at him before throwing her stick to one side. "Whatever. Were you on a trail?"

Tyler unfolds his arms, and he shrugs once more. "I wasn't arrogant, I was just..." Yeah, let it go. He chews his lip a second, glancing back to where he was sitting. "There's a little trail there that goes down to a creek." He returns his gaze to her. He leans against a tree. "It's pretty slick when it rains, though."

"Just what? Indoctrinated into a false sense of superiority that because you have a dick you are better than me. Dude, just no."

Isi doesn't say thank you about him pointing her down to the trail, she is just going to head off to it, ducking under some branches as she goes.

Tyler furrows his brow, "No. I'm just a fireman who's seen enough people hurt by not bein' careful enough." He walks a little behind her as she starts down that trail. "You're not gonna want to try this trail in the rain. I'm tellin' you, the slope and the mud get's really slippery."

That look Isi shoots back has tones of 'bitch, I do what I WANT' . But she isn't totally careless. She picks her way slowly down towards the creek, grabbing handfuls of tree when needed for balance. It isn't graceful, but she makes it.

Tyler stops, just kind of standing there. He looks back the way they came, then down the trail at her. Ugh. She's gonna fall and break a leg and die and he's going to hear about it from a coworker that has to recover her body in a week and he'll feel like shit about it. He grits his teeth and rolls his eyes as he emits a frustrated grumble. He huffs once more, and then begins to carefully follow her.

Reaching the streambed is the hardest part. Once there Isi pauses and eyes the trail critically in both directions. For the man coming behind her. "It is fucking creepy to have some random fucker follow you in the forest."

Tyler stops. He opens his mouth to respond, but he's got nothing, so he closes it again. He nods a little. He looks around into the darkness, then nods again, chewing on his tongue a second before turning and starting to head back up the trail away from her.

Isi watches him go, eyes narrowed. She is not a nice person when she decides to not be nice. Only when he is firmly that way does she start picking her way along the trail. Careful careful careful.